You may already know this, but shutdown -h does work on a Mac II.

Brad
> 
> On Feb 25, 14:22, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > Subject: IIsi & shutdown -h
> > I'm wondering if it's just me, or do other IIsi owners notice that
> > netbsd doesn't turn off the power when you do a shutdown -h?
> 
> I can confirm that, but then my machine has never had netbsd switch its power
> off, I had just assumed it had never been written.
> 
> > My kernels are current as of about a month ago.
> 
> Mine as of about four days ago at home, but in the sources I've got lying
> around here at  work (1.0-current from Dec 1 1995), I notice that there's a
> #define DB2O_v2PowerOff 0x04 in /sys/arch/mac68k/mac68k/via.h, and there does
> seem to be code in via.c (via_shutdown()) which should do this, and it seems to
> get called from boot() when the arguments has RB_HALT set. I dunno, maybe it
> should work. I do seem to remember someone saying on the list a few months back
> that their IIsi was hanging while attempting to ring the bell on shutdown...
> 
> Bernard.
>