[parted-devel] > 63 heads. Why does this keep coming up?

[Brian C. Lane]

It seems that the most common parted error right now is the one that
happens on flash drives that come from the factory with a 'bad' format
that reports > 63 heads.

Does anyone know why this is happening? And is there anything parted can
do about it? I've run into this once myself while using
livecd-iso-to-disk (which uses parted for partitioning). After I removed
its partitioning using dd if=/dev/zero ... it worked fine.

I think at the least that the error should not throw a backtrace. I'd
rather see it print an error about the device, with some helpful
information, and skip it so that things like parted -l will show the
rest of the drives on the system without removing the offending device.

-- 
Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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