> I just found 1.4 a couple of days ago, and have had absolutely no luck with 
> it at all.  I've made partitions both with the old 3.01 a/ux, and with the 
> hd sc from 7.5 on hard disks.  I've used zip installed and hdsc installed 
> partions on zips.  I've reinitialized hard disks.  I've used both aux and 
> mac partitions.  In each and every case, 1.4 has been unable to see anything 
> but the driver partitions.  With the older mkfs in the 1.2 distribution, i 
> can put partitions on all ofthese (though the zips have other problems).

I believe that this question was just answered (either this morning or
yesterday).  The problem is that your hard disk formatter creates an
incorrect partition map.  Mkfs has a hard time reading these.  The
solution is to create some other kind of partition (such as a MacOS
partition or a free partition) as the last partition on the drive.
Apparently, it can be as small as 1kB.

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX