> 2000-03-04 is working for me, including mesh on my 9600.

i just built the 1.4U-0305 kernel, however the kernel locks up at the
same spot where the mesh failed before(it was no longer able to recognize
the drive manufactor).

scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for device to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <, , > SCSI0 0/direct fixed
sd0: mode sense (4) returned nonsense; using fictitious geometry
sd0: 8201 MMB, 8201 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec x 16796929 sectors
probe(mesh0:4:0): Sense Error Code 0x0
mesh: timeout state=3
mesh: resetting dma
 

> BTW, do you really use the latest header files?  The new stdarg.h
> doesn't include va-ppc.h.

I pulled the ansi.h and stdarg.h directly from the ftpsite rather than
CVS, but the 0205 build still fails.

-jake