Re: Bug report 1.6.14: Heads < 0 Heads > 255

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Andrew,

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:10:17AM -0400, Andrew A. wrote:
>    It generated a series of assertion failure messages for /dev/hdb which I
>    am reporting from memory.  I believe they were at lines 465 and 466 of
>    some file, and that they were about Heads < 0 and Heads > 255.

Thanks for your well written bug report.

Your partition table on /dev/hdb has a partition that ends beyond
cylinder 1023 which has its CHS encoded as (1022, ?, ?).  Parted
was expecting 1022 to indicate a real CHS address.  I've changed Parted
so to only expect this to be the case for C > 1022.

I will release a new Parted shortly...

Cheers,
Andrew