> In-Reply-To: <199704132333.SAA05447@mailhub.iastate.edu> from "Rick Hawkins" at Apr 1
> 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 tried that, but still :)

The disk had 3 macos partitions, followed by 2 more which were to become bsd partitons.  
It couldn't see any of the 5 . . .

rick