>OK, I was really thinking the 1Gig limit (just for these Quantum Fireball
>1.(25)G drives), not the cylinder thing.
>
>I bumped the memory allotted up to 15 M and it made not one whit of
>difference.
>
>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)
>
>                                    Kevin
As I recall the way to hide the mapping problem is to put the Mac
partition(s) at the end of the drive as you have done so that the out by
one mismatch does not upset mkfs or BSD. MacOS software does not seem to
notice this ? the reason for the persistence of the bug?

Richard