Hi,

> > sd0: 1034MB, 4903 cyl, 4 head, 108 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2118144 sectors
> > panic: mesh: FIFO !=0
> > rebooting
> 
> If I recall correctly, 9500 has two SCSI controlers/buses, one is mesh,
> the other is esp (53c9x).
> 
> > And that's the end of that.  There is no zip disk, no jaz disk.
> > Nothing is plugged in other than an ethernet cable, power, monitor,
> > keyboard and mouse (no scsi, no printers..)
> 
> Why don't you connect the harddrive to other bus?


Ahh, good advice, thank you.

However, whilst I do get further, into the actual Installation system,
my system then generates errors on esp0 on trying to spin up sd0:

superb-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 7056, 14080, 21104, 27680, 34704, 41728, 48752,
553278, 62352, esp0: illegal command: 0xc2 (state 2, phase 3, prevphase
1)
esp0: SCSI bus reset
sd0: ..is spinning up...waiting

readesp0: illegal command: 0xc2 (state 2, phse 3, prevphase 1)
 eesp0: SCSI bus reset
rror: 48

rdfs: Input/output errorsd0:  ..is spinning up...waiting

It did recognize the drive correctly during the boot up.  I have removed
the CDROM from the chain, just in case.  Is there something different
about termination or signalling on that other bus from the MESH one?

Scott