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Re: track 0 problems - zero-length partition?
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: track 0 problems - zero-length partition? |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:41:55 +1100 |
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:08:21PM +1000, Graeme M Bailey wrote:
> Greetings from Far North Queensland Australia,
Gday mate! (Greetings from Melbourne)
> While trying to access a new storage HDD
> I got a message saying that I had found a bug in parted
> and to email you people with
> the version (1.6.3) and...
> "Assertion (dev->length > 0) at linux.c:697
> in function init_file() failed"
>
> I have a Seagate ST340014A hard disk drive
> with a possible corrupted track zero.
I have problems with these overheating in Melbourne! They just don't
build hard disks to .au spec :/
What exactly did you type?
> The drive seems to have acquired a zero-length partition?
No... this is claiming that your hard disk has a size of 0.
Weird. Unless you typed in a partition device...
> Now neither Linux nor windoze will let me access the disk
>
> The linux (RH9) kernel log reported:
>
> hdd: [DM6:DDO] [remap +63] [4111/255/63]hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=63, high=0,
> low=63, sector=0
That's no good.
> the actual parameters of the disk are: (I think) 19158 16 255 the LBA
> version is 4865 255 63 and with the limiting jumper 4111 255 63
These parameters are irrelevant. Don't worry about them.
Cheers,
Andrew