i think the best advice at this point is to strip the A4000 down to the basic cpu card hard drive and cdrom, preferably with the hard drive and cdrom on the internal ide interface and try a clean install of os 3.9. Once this works then add your peripherals one by one. OS 3.9 does update the scsi.device, and there may be some confusion with the this update that causes a conflict with your existing scsi peripherals