Re: Verbatim USB drive crashes libparted

[Brian C. Lane]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 08:28:01PM +0200, TK wrote:
> 
> Assertion (head_size <= 63) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:662 in
> function
> probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

> DRIVE 2 (factory settings) 
> 
> sudo fdisk -l -u /dev/sdg
> 
> Disk /dev/sdg: 4007 MB, 4007657472 bytes
> 86 heads, 22 sectors/track, 4137 cylinders, total 7827456 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
>    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdg1 8064 7827455 3909696 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> 

re-formatting the device will solve this. The problem is that you cannot
have > 63 heads, but some flash drives appear to have factory formats
that break this rule.

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