>  > I never had any external devices. The PD is terminated, without
>  > termination power, and is at the end of the cable. The 256MB HD
>  > which I gave away, was at the middle of the cable, without
>  > termination resistors. Everything works perfect under
>  > RiscOS, but hangs the bootsequence of RiscBSD, after I removed the HD.
>  > 
>  > So I am very sure that the problem is software, not hardware.
> 
> Very true. The problem lies with the cumana driver turning off board
> termination. The work around it to ensure the bus is correctly
> terminated ie put a terminator on the back of the card. This will be
> fixed (eventually).

I borrowed a SCSI-2 terminator today, and this resulted in
the boot procedure getting hung too, but on a different
place, i.e. 2 lines more output:
sfasintr:SCSI-RESET detected!sfasintr:...  
...SET detected!sfasintr:SCSI-

So: yes, your advice removed 1 bug, to uncover another...  :-]

Kim0