I am a liar! I threw a TI TSB12LV26 FireWire card (Belkin, BestBuy, $35) 
and it worked! Imagine my suprise. I should have connected my iPod to see 
if it mounted. Anyway here's my dmesg, your friends should be similar 
minus the three PCI cards I have in there, and he will have Rage Pro 
onboard, and he hasn't overclocked his CPU and FSB, Probably not a 
Lonestar CPU either. My overclocking may be what was causing the scsi bus 
to misbehave, not sure yet.

It appears that the onboard IDE controller only does DMA Mode 2. Wow, MESH 
is running at 50MHz, too bad the device attachments don't say what mode 
they're using like pciide :(



NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC_MD) #0: Sun Sep  8 22:12:49 UTC 2002
    
autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/macppc/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC_MD
total memory = 384 MB
avail memory = 343 MB
using 2048 buffers containing 19760 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: 750 (Revision 2.2), ID 0 (primary)
cpu0: HID0 8290c0a4<EMCP,ECLK,DOZE,DPM,ICE,DCE,SGE,BTIC,BHT>
cpu0: 291.67 MHz
cpu0: 512KB backside cache
grackle0 at mainbus0
pci0 at grackle0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Motorola MPC106 "Grackle" Host Bridge (rev. 0x40)
fwohci0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 OHCI IEEE 
1394 Host Controller (rev. 0x00)
fwohci0: interrupting at irq 23
fwohci0: OHCI 1.0, 00:d0:03:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX, 400Mb/s, 2048 max_rec, 4 
iso_ctx
ofb0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: ATI Technologies 3D Rage Pro
ofb0: 1024 x 768, 8bpp
wsdisplay0 at ofb0 kbdmux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: Opti RM861HA (rev. 0x10)
ohci0: interrupting at irq 25
ohci0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Opti OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
obio0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: addr 0xf3000000
mesh0 at obio0 offset 0x10000 irq 12: 50MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at mesh0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
bm0 at obio0 offset 0x11000 irq 42,33: address 00:05:02:XX:XX:XX
zsc0 at obio0 offset 0x13000: irq 15,16
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
davbus at obio0 offset 0x14000 not configured
swim3 at obio0 offset 0x15000 not configured
nvram0 at obio0 offset 0x60000
wdc0 at obio0 offset 0x20000 irq 13: DMA transfer
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC AC26400B>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 6149 MB, 13328 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 12594960 
sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33)
wd0(wdc0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
wdc1 at obio0 offset 0x21000 irq 14: DMA transfer
atapibus0 at wdc1 channel 0: 2 targets
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <MATSHITA CR-585, , ZS20> type 5 cdrom removable
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 3, DMA mode 1
cd0(wdc1:0:0): using PIO mode 3, DMA mode 1 (using DMA data transfers)
adb0 at obio0 offset 0x16000 irq 18: 2 targets
aed0 at adb0 addr 0: ADB Event device
akbd0 at adb0 addr 2: extended keyboard
wskbd0 at akbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
ams0 at adb0 addr 3: 1-button, 100 dpi mouse
wsmouse0 at ams0 mux 0
ofb1 at pci0 dev 18 function 0: ATI Technologies 3D Rage I/II
ofb1: 1024 x 768, 8bpp
wsdisplay at ofb1 not configured
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <IOMEGA, ZIP 100, D.09> SCSI2 0/direct 
removable
sd0: 98304 KB, 96 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 196608 sectors
md0: internal 2048 KB image area
fw0 at fwohci0: 00:d0:03:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:00:00:00:00:00
boot device: cd0
root on md0a dumps on md0b
WARNING: clock gained 89 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: ffs
sd0: cache synchronization failed <- courtesy of my high quality Iomega 
ZIP drive <3