I just found 1.4 a couple of days ago, and have had absolutely no luck with 
it at all.  I've made partitions both with the old 3.01 a/ux, and with the 
hd sc from 7.5 on hard disks.  I've used zip installed and hdsc installed 
partions on zips.  I've reinitialized hard disks.  I've used both aux and 
mac partitions.  In each and every case, 1.4 has been unable to see anything 
but the driver partitions.  With the older mkfs in the 1.2 distribution, i 
can put partitions on all ofthese (though the zips have other problems).

rick