Subject: Re: Wierd Mkfs behavior.
To: port-mac68k <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Steve Quint <squint@flash.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/04/1997 20:08:07
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