Takeshi Shibagaki wrote:

>Hi, I don't notice, but are you maintener of Mkfs?
>

Nobody really maintains Mkfs but I've been the person doing most of the 
hacking on it for the last few years.  Hopefully it will soon be retired 
in favor of the sysinst method of doing system installations.

>From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
>Subject: Re: disklabel in mac68k port.
>Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 13:16:43 -0500
>Message-ID: <m13dGKS-0002QXC@mail.augustmail.com>
>
>rnestor> At one time I had pulled the I/O routines from pdisk and was 
>working on a 
>rnestor> new version of Mkfs that supported ATA as well as both SCSI 
>Buses.  If 
>rnestor> anyone wants a copy of my incomplete work I'd be happy to make them 
>rnestor> available.
>
>some time ago, you want to speak this, don't you!! I didn't understand
>you in detail. If it's possible, would you like to send me new Mkfs?

The work is very much incomplete!  I had reworked the I/O routines and 
built a new set of windows for a different user interface.  The current 
newfs code from NetBSD needs to be pulled into the program and all of it 
neds to be tied toegether into a working program.  The reason I stopped 
working on it at the time was I had gotten far enough along to understand 
how I could do the same thing with sysinst.  So I worked on converting 
the i386 version of sysinst into a mac68k specific version.  That's the 
code that you are probably using in your Installation Kernels.  I also 
have a newer version of the sysinst code.

You should find the files on:
    ftp://murphy.dyndns.org/pub

  mac68k_Xservers/ - the various mac68k Xservers for those who can't
          find them on Allen's FTP server

  map/  - contains my updated version of pdisk and corresponding
          NetBSD utility to dump Apple Partition Maps

  ppp/  - contains my setup files for using ppp with nat

  sysinst/ - my second version of sysinst/mac68k

  Mkfs_2x.sea.bin - my incomplete work on an IDE/ATA capable version
                    of Mkfs.

-bob

p.s.  I should have thought of this earlier, but you might be able to use 
the version of pdisk that's in the above "map/" directory to convert the 
partitions on the ATA disk.  I've never tried it, but I did re-enable the 
necessary parts to force the usage flags to be written so the partition 
would be NetBSD recognizable.