I don't know what exactly is up with this but I found it helped to make a
scratch partition (1 meg) at the end of the drive. 

My $0.02

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Dave Huang wrote:

> My replacement IBM drive came today (only two days after I called them; I
> am _quite_ impressed with IBM :), so I set about reinstalling netbsd...  I
> used Alliance Power Tools to partition the thing, 20 meg A/UX root, 72 meg
> A/UX swap, 1024 meg A/UX usr, and 1070 meg HFS. When I started up mkfs
> 1.43, it only showed me the root, swap, and HFS partitions. I deleted the
> HFS partition and reran mkfs, and it showed me root, swap, and a free
> partition. Still no usr. Recreating the HFS partition, then deleting the
> usr one made mkfs show root, swap, and HFS once again. I also tried
> deleting both the usr and HFS partitions, then making a 2 gig usr
> partition; mkfs finally showed root, swap, and usr. Unfortunately, I want
> an HFS partition :) 
> 
> So, what's with this? :) I ended up going to that web site mentioned in
> the FAQ to find the Apple HD SC Setup patch. Partitioned the drive with
> it, and mkfs showed root, swap, and usr. No HFS though, but I didn't care
> :)
> 
> Looking at the detailed partition info in HD SC Setup, my partitions are
> as follows: 
> 
> Number   Type                  Name                  Title
> 0        Apple_partition_map   Apple                 Partition Map
> 1        Apple_Driver43        Macintosh             Mac Driver
> 2        Apple_UNIX_SVR2       Root file system      A/UX Root slice 0
> 3        Apple_UNIX_SVR2       Swap                  A/UX Swap slice 1
> 4        Apple_UNIX_SVR2       Usr file system       A/UX Usr slice 2
> 5        Apple_HFS             MacOS                 Big Blue
> -- 
> Name: Dave Huang     |   Mammal, mammal / their names are called /
> INet: khym@bga.com   |   they raise a paw / the bat, the cat /
> FurryMUCK: Dahan     |   dolphin and dog / koala bear and hog -- TMBG
> Dahan: Hani G Y+C 21 Y++ L+++ W- C++ T++ A+ E+ S++ V++ F- Q+++ P+ B+ PA+ PL++
> 
> 

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