Thanks for the tips. 
You have reminded me that I have two, nearly identical machines, and I
should move the 
SCSI over to my performa to see if I have the same problems: on that machine
I run a spare OS7.1 and it might be interesting to see if it acts up. 
The LC runs 8.1.bloat.
Other ideas and suggestions are encouraged. I am new to the geek world. 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	AstroZomby [SMTP:astrozomby@mac.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:39 AM
> To:	Carlson, Clarence R., D.O.; 'port-mac68k@netbsd.org'
> Subject:	Re: Yet another SCSI problem...
> 
> I had the same symptom occur on a MacIIci that I was attempting to install
> on.
> Mine too was locking up at the "so I sez to him..." part.
> I tracked down the trouble to what appeared to be a faulty SCSI controller
> on
> the board.
> 
> In my case, the Mac system ran fine.  Everything was cool...until I
> noticed that
> If I plugged in both my Zip Drive and my SyQuest drives in, only the Zip
> was
> recognized.  Nobody on the SCSI Chain was sharing an ID...so it was wierd.
> 
> Turned out that, I could set the Zip to ID 5 and the SyQuest to ID 3 (the
> Internal HD stayed at ID 1) and every time the Zip would show up on ID 6,
> and
> the SyQuest didn't at all.  I finally removed the Zip alltogether, hooked
> up the
> SyQuest on ID 2, and rebooted.  Lo and behold, the SyQuest mounted to the
> Mac
> Desktop, but was on ID 6.
> 
> So, basically, the board was only allowing devices to use IDs 1 and 6.
> 
> I replaced the MBoard on the IIci (major expense there, $10, thank you
> eBay )
> and now I have the SyQuest showing up on the same ID it's set to.  No more
> just
> 1 and 6.
> 
> I've yet to try reinstalling the NetBSD since I just put the new board in
> this
> week.  But the new board did solve the issues on the Mac side...so
> hopefully it
> will do the same on the NetBSD side as well.
> 
> Good Luck.
> 
> -AstroZomby-
> 
> 
> On 10/12/00 at 9:18 AM, Carlson.Clarence@mayo.edu (Carlson, Clarence R.,
> D.O.)
> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings:
> > I hope someone can steer me in the right direction, the SCSI voodoo
> stuff is
> > confusing.
> > I have two mac 575's with upgraded full 040 chips. In the performa I
> > installed 1.4.2 without a hitch. But the drive is small (250 meg) so I
> > thought I would go ahead and install on my other 575 (an LC),but using
> the
> > external 1 gig SCSI HD. (a refurbed Microp.) When I first got the drive
> > hooked up I used it as a single large mac partition and everything
> worked
> > fine. 
> > So I  partitioned for NetBSD use, left a little for MacOS, and did a
> full
> > install. No problems. But during boot it would get to, "so I sez to
> him..."
> > and hang. And now I find that I cannot either restart or reboot the
> MacOS
> > from the menu. It hangs and I have to reboot from the keyboard. If I
> unplug
> > the HD, it reboots and shutsdown OK. I have restored the drive to one
> mac
> > partition, upgraded my drivers (Apple Drive setup 1.7.2) but no joy.
> > I realise that there aren't always easy answers for SCSI problems, but
> > anyone have a general idea of where I should go with this?  Thanks.
> > 
> >  --
> > "I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy, than be a success at
> > something I hate."
> >  
> > -George Burns
> > Clarence R Carlson DO
> > Philosopher & Curmudgeon
> > 
>