At 18:15 -0700 6/4/97, Bob Nestor wrote:
>I suspect you're giving Mkfs credit for being a lot more intelligent than
>it really is here.  Mkfs doesn't read disklabels even if they existed, it
>just reads the SCSI Disk Partition Map if it exists on the disk.  You
>don't say what version of Mkfs you're using, but from the message is
>looks like an old one.  There is a new version 1.43 that was posted to
>ftp.netbsd.org earlier this week that you might try.  Also it's possible
>the disk in question was formatted as an MFS volume rather than an HFS
>one.  You might check for that or re-format the disk with a patched
>version of the Apple HD Utility.
>

I'm using mkfs 1.4.  I'll try version 1.43 tomorrow...

The volumes were formatted as A/UX root & usr partitions.

The hard drive was formatted with APS PowerTools and then formatted AGAIN
with the patched A/UX HD Utiility.

Steve