Well, since the "d" partition ends up as the MacOS driver partition, and
the "c" partition is "the whole disk" partition, that leaves only a, b, e,
f, g, and h.  That adds up to 6.  If you have a swap partition on the
drive, it ends up as the "b" partition and leaves only 5 partitions for
use as ffs file systems.

On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Christoph Badura wrote:

> paul@whooppee.com (Paul Goyette) writes:
> 
> >On the mac68k port, the "d" partition almost always ends up as the
> >partition that holds the MacOS driver code, so it is basically unusable to
> >NetBSD.  Thus, mac68k is also limited to six usable partitions per disk.
> 
> Strictly speaking, it's 7 usable partitions per disk.  Partition b isn't
> magically reserved for swap.
> 
> -- 
> Christoph Badura
> 
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