> floppy disks dont have labels. No partitions.
> 
> the pseudo-"partitios" you see (fd0a fd0b) are really only ways to switch
> the track encoding.
> 
> the label you see when reading is a pseudo-inkernel-label created by the
> kernel.

I'm sorry. I didn't mention it is a HARD DISK.
Disklabel worked fine with previous versions of NetBSD-current (arount 1.4E)

	- Adam