Hello,

> somebody else suffers from
> 
> mesh0: timeout state 3
> mesh: resetting DMA
I don't ( well, I have a S900, but that's more or less a modified 9500 )

> I think I already mentioned this once... The disk is correctly
> terminated (and obviously connected to the internal controller). I have
> 2 disks, cone macos and one NetBSD. I disovered that by swapping the two
> disks and so making the NetBSD one closer to the beginning lesses the
> frequencies of those errors, making the box almost usable...
Definitely sounds like a cable problem - effects like this shouldn't happen if the bus is properly terminated and not too long. Did you try different cables?

> I experience something very similar on Mac68k, using plain 1.6.2: on a
> very full scsi chain (which works perfectly under macOS amd even Linux)
> netbsd reports errors as hell on disk, even if I use a high-grade active
> termination. making the disk the only external disk (well, the box has 1
> scsi bus anyway) lessened the problem. So the explanation that the "68k
> scsi driver is buggy" might not be that satisfactory.
Hmm, I have an SCA Barracuda (with adaptor) a ZIP drive and a CDROM connected to the mesh - I've never seen anything like that in normal operation. Even had two disks on it a while ago to move data around - still no problems. The S900 spent the last two days compiling loads of stuff from pkgsrc without errors so I guess mesh can be considered stable for me.
Did you change the flags field in the kernel config? ( mesh0 at obio? flags 0xffff or so ) ? As far as I know these flags disable synchronous data transfers for all targets, I had all sorts of weird problems - pretty similar to yours - when I changed them. I've asked on this list what's wrong with the mesh driver and why we have to bog it down like that but didn't get any answer.

But something else - does anyone here know of a SCSI card for PCI macs that's based on the SymBIOS 53c875 controller? I have one of these cards, it works with the esiop driver on macppc ( althoug I didn't really stress-test it ), all that's missing is a firmware image ( and a flash tool but that shouldn't be too problematic ) so OF could boot from it. I know Sun used them - would Apple's OF work with this kind of firmware? fcode is supposed to be forth and therefore CPU-independent, did anyone ever try to use a Sun PCI card in a Mac? Of course it wouldn't boot classic MacOS, but loading ofwboot is all I want it to do.

have fun
Michael