here is my issue...

I want to see if there is anything else I can try that might help.
 I haven't tried too much, just reading looking for info.
 and I've been fiddling with connecting the drive to different OSes to see
 if I can see it.

Desktop Mac G4 @ 400
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lazlohol@mutilate /tmp
$ uname -a                                                                 <(1)
NetBSD mutilate 2.0.2 NetBSD 2.0.2 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Mar 22 16:19:08 UTC 2005  jmc@faith.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/macppc/200503220140Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC macppc
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I haven't tried rebooting (i have no monitor/keyboard/mouse on this 
  box)...  I was trying just to add the drive.
It was attached to a MacOS-X (1.4.2) system. 

based on some other postings i've see, there is a mapping that takes place
after this to scsibus0 and then a device is assigned.

Windows XP was able to see the data just fine (this kinda freaked me out only
  cause i never expect windows to *ever* do anything useful)

my hard drive is:
/dev/wd0*

I see this in the logs (/var/log/messages):

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lazlohol@mutilate /var/log
# grep umass0 messages                                                     <(1)
Sep 30 18:55:10  /netbsd: umass0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 
Sep 30 18:55:10  /netbsd: 
Sep 30 18:55:10  /netbsd: umass0: LaCie LaCie Hard Drive USB, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 3  
Sep 30 18:55:10  /netbsd: umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only  
Sep 30 18:55:10  /netbsd: umass0: no buffer memory
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following this there are a few of these:
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sd0(wdc0:0:1):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00
    SENSE KEY:  Not Ready
    ASC/ASCQ:  Medium Not Present
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that second part has me bothered.

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