Hello Frederick!

  FB> "fdisk" is optional if the disk isn't to be booted
    > from.

The disk is to be booted from... sort of.  It's slightly odd
I know, but NetBSD is installed on the secondary ATA disk
drive.  The master boot record, which I think contains the
boot selector program is on the primary ATA drive.

  FB> The command is "newfs", but first you have to make the
    > partition type into "4.4BSD", and set the fsize,
    > bsize, and cpg parameters...

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

  FB> ...to actually make a file system with custom
    > parameters you'd have to specify "-c"...

Thanks for the tip.

Regards,
  - Andy.