Keiki_Sunagawa@yokogawa.co.jp wrote:

> What the model is it?  There are devices some quirks, it might be the
> case.

It's a Conner CFP1080S. 
 
> Is the Conner drive connected to MESH recognized under MacOS (on
> PowerMac)?  If so, the problem may be ours...  Did you check the cable
> and bus termination?  Why not remove the CD-ROM from the bus
> temporarily and check if the problem still remains?

I've used it under LinuxPPC and it worked fine there and it works
normally under MacOS. I'll check out what happens when I disconnect the CD-ROM.

> Ok, will you post the startup message?  It'll great help.  If you use
> serial console, you don't need write it down by hand...

Here's the startup message:

NetBSD 1.4_BETA (INSTALL) #0: Sun Apr 25 19:35:45 JST 1999
    kei@azarin:/var/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/INSTALL
CPU: 603ev (Revision 201)
real mem  = 83886080
avail mem = 73007104
using 800 buffers containing 3276800 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x106b product 0x0008 (rev. 0x02)
de0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0
de0: interrupting at irq 23
de0: 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 2.1
de0: address 00:40:33:a2:1a:98
ofb0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x4754
ofb0: 1152 x 870, 8bpp
wsdisplay0 at ofb0
ep0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: 3Com 3c595-TX 10/100 Ethernet
ep0: interrupting at irq 28
ep0: address 00:00:c5:4f:56:e6, 64KB word-wide FIFO, 3:1 Rx:Tx split
ep0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX (default 10baseT)
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
mesh: unexpected disconnect
mesh: unexpected disconnect
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-ROM CR-506, 8S05> SCSI2
5/cdrom removable
panic: mesh: FIFO != 0
rebooting

Any ideas?

cheers, 

Matthew Reilly