Simon Waite wrote:
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> Hi There :)
> 
> I've got a Dynaport E/II nubus card in my Mac IIci which works find with
> MacOS 7.5
> I belive its a 8390 based card (Because there is a big chip marked DP8390DN
> :)
> The 1.4 Kernel recognises this correctly as ae0, and prints its ethernet MAC
> address

is the MAC address correct?  what exactly does 'dmesg' say about the card?

> Also I have found if MacBSD Crashes, MacOS refuses to mount any HFS
> partitions on that drive.
> Its partitioned as
> 400Mb AU/X Root&Usr
> 30Mb AU/X Swap
> 30Mb MacOS/HFS
> 
> I planned to have the MacBSD Booter on the HFS partition in case I moved the
> Hard Disk to
> another Mac. Luckily Its on an external drive as the only way I have found
> to reset a
> partition table on a mac is to boot linux, and zero out the first few K with
> 'dd'

needless to say, this shouldn't be happening...i'm not quite sure why it
would be happening, either.  i've never seen this behavior on my IIci.
what kernel are you usually using?
 
later.

colin