This bug has previously been submitted as PR 6117. I can confirm this
bug on VT3287A and Via VT3287S chipsets that were on Via C3 and Via C7
low power motherboards.

At install the bsd.rd kernel freezes at
wdc_atapi_intr: warning: reading only 14 of 18 bytes on the VT 3287A

and at
wdc_atapi_intr: warning: reading only 0 of 18 bytes on the VT3287S

There are basically 3 Vendors of mini-itx boards:
Intel n270, n330, n410, n510, n525 which work.
Via ITX C3/C7  do not work with more than 1 SATA drive- I have not
tried any Via Nano based cpu's
and Lastly the AMD Sempron LE-1250 - which I also have not tried.

It may be a buggy chipset but it is still being made and most of user
are now purchasing SATA drives rather than IDE drives.  If it is not
an easy fix I would suggest that the 
http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html  
web pages as well as the man pages for pciide and atapiscsi pages say
something to that effect. It is irritating to research the chipset
prior to a purchase and not be able to run OpenBSD.

Thanks for maintaining OpenBSD.  


J. Scott Heppler

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