>> log in anonymous, cd to the RC4 softfloat directory and do an mget *, 
>> and the download starts, gets the MD5 and checksums and gets about 
>> 25% into the first kernel, freezes, and several minutes later reports 
>> a SCSI timeout error like the one below and goes into a timeout loop, 
>> I can assume hardware problems.
>
> No, if I understand what you did I think you've made some incorrect 
> assumptions.  The Mac68k port doesn't support native disklabel.  You 
> must either use sysinst or something like the old MKFS

Sorry for not being clear. I did use sysinst to label the disk. But if 
I let sysinst continue, when it starts pulling the tarballs down, it 
quickly dies, complaining there's no room.

> or pdisk to define all the partitions inside the Apple Partition Map 
> (and get the NetBSD flags set properly).  The NetBSD/mac68k kernel 
> reads and processes the Apple Partition Map on boot and constructs a 
> fake in-core disklabel for use while running.