I'm trying to read some small slabs from a database and am getting invalid data 
returned.
Opening the dataset in HDFView also shows incorrect values.

Trying it via the utilities, this command shows a similar failure:
h5dump -p -d "/Regions/Region1/Dataset" -s "175,0,0" -c "1,5,5" bad.h5
Output:
                HDF5 "bad.h5" {
                DATASET "/Regions/Region1/Dataset" {
                   DATATYPE  H5T_IEEE_F32LE
                   DATASPACE  SIMPLE { ( 266, 196, 1786 ) / ( H5S_UNLIMITED, 
H5S_UNLIMITED, H5S_UNLIMITED ) }
   STORAGE_LAYOUT {
      CHUNKED ( 1, 1, 1786 )
      SIZE 219264490 (1.699:1 COMPRESSION)
   }
   FILTERS {
      COMPRESSION DEFLATE { LEVEL 6 }
   }
   FILLVALUE {
      FILL_TIME H5D_FILL_TIME_IFSET
      VALUE  0
   }
   ALLOCATION_TIME {
      H5D_ALLOC_TIME_INCR
   }
                   SUBSET {
                      START ( 175, 0, 0 );
                      STRIDE ( 1, 1, 1 );
                      COUNT ( 1, 5, 5 );
                      BLOCK ( 1, 1, 1 );
                      DATA {
                      (175,0,0): 5.00226e-011, 4.82024e+030, 7.46402e-007, 
1.81771e+031, 6.82915e+022,
                      (175,1,0): 5.02496e-011, 4.82024e+030, 7.46402e-007, 
1.81771e+031, 6.82915e+022,
                      (175,2,0): 5.02496e-011, 4.82024e+030, 7.46402e-007, 
1.81771e+031, 6.82915e+022,
                      (175,3,0): 5.02496e-011, 4.82024e+030, 7.46402e-007, 
1.81771e+031, 6.82915e+022,
                      (175,4,0): 5.02496e-011, 4.82024e+030, 7.46402e-007, 
1.81771e+031, 6.82915e+022
                      }
                   }
                }
                }

Expanding the selection slight gives the correct data:
h5dump -p -d "/Regions/Region1/Dataset" -s "174,0,0" -c "2,5,5" bad.h5
Output:
HDF5 "bad.h5" {
DATASET "/Regions/Region1/Dataset" {
   DATATYPE  H5T_IEEE_F32LE
   DATASPACE  SIMPLE { ( 266, 196, 1786 ) / ( H5S_UNLIMITED, H5S_UNLIMITED, 
H5S_UNLIMITED ) }
   STORAGE_LAYOUT {
      CHUNKED ( 1, 1, 1786 )
      SIZE 219264490 (1.699:1 COMPRESSION)
   }
   FILTERS {
      COMPRESSION DEFLATE { LEVEL 6 }
   }
   FILLVALUE {
      FILL_TIME H5D_FILL_TIME_IFSET
      VALUE  0
   }
   ALLOCATION_TIME {
      H5D_ALLOC_TIME_INCR
   }
   SUBSET {
      START ( 174, 0, 0 );
      STRIDE ( 1, 1, 1 );
      COUNT ( 2, 5, 5 );
      BLOCK ( 1, 1, 1 );
      DATA {
      (174,0,0): 5596.14, 5155, 7550.53, 8183.16, 6550.84,
      (174,1,0): 4673.81, 6764.91, 2571.05, 424.237, 3440.45,
      (174,2,0): 1976.77, 2333.76, 5337.73, 5999.94, 3304.85,
      (174,3,0): 1500.24, 2544.14, 5753.82, 5693.52, 3100.93,
      (174,4,0): 2546.38, 2239.06, 5786.03, 2432.32, 447.349
      (175,0,0): 2560, 2239.06, 5786.03, 2432.32, 447.349,
      (175,1,0): 2560, 2239.06, 5786.03, 2432.32, 447.349,
      (175,2,0): 2560, 2239.06, 5786.03, 2432.32, 447.349,
      (175,3,0): 2560, 2239.06, 5786.03, 2432.32, 447.349,
      (175,4,0): 2560, 2239.06, 5786.03, 2432.32, 447.349
      }
   }
}
}

Any idea on when I'm doing wrong or how to get the proper data?

Thanks,
  Peter Steinberg

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