Since the  response quality is improving I took the liberty of modifying
the subject line :-)))

>Sure it wasn't  /ATY,mach64 or /bandit@F4000000/ATY,mach64@D ?  These are
>the ones I've got listed for the 9500 machines.

The second one rings a bell

>:)Got that from a neat little app that is included in  Mac PCI
>:)development SDK - called "Display Name Registry".
>
>Oooo, sounds cool.  Any chance it's freely available?  Failing that, is
>there a resource listing strings and models that you could post?

yes it's available for free from apple web site. It is a part of PCI DDK -
here's the url:
ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/PCI_DDK_3.0.sit.hqx
The app is in Tools/Utility folder
One other thing: BootVars crashes on  my graphite G4 ( 450 MHz, Mac OS 9.0.4)
 at work.
So the best is probably to use System Disk from Darwin ( or DP 4) for newer
hardware.

>So, anyways, I've got some conflicting info about 9500s.  First, what speed
>was your machine initially -- the models list has the 120 and 133
>separately from the 150, 180, and 200.

It's a 604e running at 133 MHz

>
>:)The only problem I recall
>:)having was that booting from floppy failed  (machine would freeze before
>:)the boot banner even appeared)
>
>Is this using serial console or screen?
Screen

>Can you boot from a SCSI device that's not ID 0?

didn't try that

>:)until I disconnected  the internal CD-rom drive.
>
>What's the model?  Just give me the lines from dmesg or SCSI probe.

It was a stock Apple internal CD rom drive - don't know the model name

Below is dmesg dump:

NetBSD 1.4.1 (MYKERN3) #1: Wed Nov 10 20:38:55 GMT 1999
    root@sparky.fddi.san.rr.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/MYKERN3
CPU: 604ev (Revision 1203)
real mem  = 100663296
avail mem = 88891392
using 1228 buffers containing 5029888 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
pchb0: Apple Computer PCI Controller (rev. 0x03)
ofb0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: cannot map framebuffer
obio0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: addr 0xf3000000
esp0 at obio0 offset 0x10000 irq 12: NCR53C94, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
mc0 at obio0 offset 0x11000: irq 14,2,3: address 00:a0:40:20:85:dc
zsc0 at obio0 offset 0x13000: irq 15,16
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 (console)
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
awacs at obio0 offset 0x14000 not configured
swim3 at obio0 offset 0x15000 not configured
adb0 at obio0 offset 0x16000 irq 18: 1 targets
aed0 at adb0 addr 0: ADB Event device
akbd0 at adb0 addr 2: extended keyboard
wskbd0 at akbd0
mesh0 at obio0 offset 0x18000 irq 13: 50MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus1 at mesh0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <FUJITSU, M1606S-512, 6234> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 1041MB, 3457 cyl, 6 head, 102 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2131992 sectors
sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST32430N, 0266> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
sd1: 2047MB, 3992 cyl, 9 head, 116 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4193415 sectors
nvram0 at obio0 offset 0x1d000
pci1 at mainbus0 bus 1
pci1: i/o enabled, memory enabled
pchb1 at pci1 dev 11 function 0
pchb1: Apple Computer PCI Controller (rev. 0x03)
de0 at pci1 dev 13 function 0
de0: interrupting at irq 27
de0: Asante 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.2
de0: address 00:00:94:a1:9c:2e
de0: enabling 10baseT port
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
sd0: NetBSD disklabel
root file system type: ffs
sd1: NetBSD disklabel

HTH  Andy