Just like Rodney, I was using the latest and greatest:  mkfs 1.45 and 
installers 1.1f and 1.1g.

                                   Kevin

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Robert Nestor wrote:

> Kevin Havener <havenerk@Walden.MO.NET> wrote:
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> >I first made a 500 M mac and 700 M BSD partition.  Did not work.  Then I 
> >made a 500, 500, 200--the middle 500 was a BSD partition, forget where 
> >swap was.  Did not work.  Then made a 50 M swap, a 500 root+user, a 500 M 
> >Mac and a 200 M mac.  Damn if that didn't fix it.  You're going to have 
> >to convince me there isn't a 1G problem of some sort with this disk.  I 
> >reformatted the thing a zillion times and let Silverlining thrash on it 
> >(reading and writing sectors) for 8 continous hours.  Near as I can tell, 
> >only moving the BSD partition to the front of the disk (and away from 1G 
> >mark) worked.  YMMV. (and no, I didn't mess with the cabling at any time)
> 
> Just what version of Mkfs and the Installer were you using?  This does 
> sound like the 1Gig limit problem, but that only occured with old 
> versions of Mkfs and the Installer.
> 
> -bob
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