>was the disk "up" when it happened? i suspect this may be the problem...
>to boot i use vst-format to wake up the disk and the booter-program.
>apple's hd sc setup won't wake up the disk, yet once it's whirring,
>it'll work with it. could this be a problem in the way the mac handles
>scsi disks?

What do you mean by "up"? I am not a specialist of "low-level SCSI".

The message arrives in the Mini Shell (Installation program), after
formating (with Drive Set Up 1.6.2, I know, it's not perhaps the better
choice, but it runs) and after initializing file system for NetBSD with
"MKfs_1.45".

>mount /dev/sd0h /home    ;and it answers
>Error on SCSIRead(), #5
>/home : Invalid argument
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