I've re-read all the mailing list archives and had assumed this had been
quashed by now, but apparently not.

I have a plain ol' boring beige G3 266 DT with the ATAPI CD-ROM and IDE disk
and SCSI Zip drive.  I also have an external 1 Gb disk on the external SCSI.
The machine has 160 Mb of RAM.  (It also once booted from the floppy
successfully with this much RAM, back before there was MESH support.)

Trying to boot from the official 1.4 installation floppy yields

NetBSD 1.4 (INSTALL) #0: Tue May 11 00:32:25 JST 1999
     tsubai@mint.iri.co.jp:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/INSTALL
CPU: 750 (Revision 202)
real mem = 167772160
avail mem = 154140672
using 800 buffers containing 3276800 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x1057 product 0x0002 (rev. 0x40)
obio0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: addr 0xf3000000
mesh0 at obio0 offset 0x10000 irq 12: 50 MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at mesh0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST11200N, 9494> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
sd0: 1003MB, 1872 cyl, 15 head, 73 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2054325 sectors
panic: SCSI_CHECK && MESH_SENSE?
rebooting

What gives?

Do I need to stick a Zip cartridge in the Zip drive or something to boot?

Or disconnect the external SCSI disk?  (That's not good, since that's the
one I was hoping to install NetBSD on  :-P )

	- Greg