The partprobe command failed on Ubuntu 10.10 and also on Slackware 13.37 with a similar device. The gist of the message suggests it is applying an assertion of the device geometry number of heads against the valid 63. The actual value is 128. Any value from 1 to 256 is valid for heads (MS-DOS cannot handle more than 255 heads due to a bug there, while sectors are the thing that is limited 63). Here is the situation on Ubuntu which has parted version 2.3:
lorentz/root /root 227# partprobe /dev/sdh Backtrace has 12 calls on stack: 12: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x31) [0x7fda3c3125c1] 11: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x393b6) [0x7fda3c33d3b6] 10: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x39b33) [0x7fda3c33db33] 9: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3a7ed) [0x7fda3c33e7ed] 8: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x1cb) [0x7fda3c318d3b] 7: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3bd34) [0x7fda3c33fd34] 6: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3bf25) [0x7fda3c33ff25] 5: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x7fda3c319815] 4: partprobe() [0x401020] 3: partprobe(main+0x136) [0x4012c6] 2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7fda3b2d4d8e] 1: partprobe() [0x400e19] A bug has been detected in GNU Parted. Refer to the web site of parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more information of what could be useful for bug submitting! Please email a bug report to bug-parted@gnu.org containing at least the version (2.3) and the following message: Assertion (head_size <= 63) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:662 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Aborted lorentz/root /root 228# -- Phil Howard KA9WGN - ka9...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
