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too many heads


From: Michael Hennebry
Subject: too many heads
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:33:05 -0500 (CDT)

I suspect this of being a well known bug, but here it is anyway.
/dev/sda is a 120 GB USB 2.0 external hard drive
from Western Digital.

address@hidden ~]# parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 1.6.15
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/sda
(parted) print
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.15), and the following
message:

Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function
probe_partition_for_geom()
failed.
Ignore/Cancel? C
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.15), and the following
message:

Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function
probe_partition_for_geom()
failed.
Ignore/Cancel? C
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.15), and the following
message:

Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function
probe_partition_for_geom()
failed.
Ignore/Cancel?
Ignore/Cancel? Cancel
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
Error: Can't have the end before the start!
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-114473.460 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031 114470.969  primary   fat32       lba
(parted)

-- 
Mike   address@hidden
"I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES.  *I* ONLY TURN UP ONCE."  --  Death





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