[ parted-Bugs-303292 ] 2048 sector size breaks parted

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Bugs item #303292, was opened at 2006-03-27 11:53
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Category: parted
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Francois Genolini (fgenolini-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: 2048 sector size breaks parted

Initial Comment:
mypc:/boot/grub # parted /dev/sdb
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email
        address@hidden
or (preferably) file a bug report at
        http://parted.alioth.debian.org/bugs/
Your report should contain the version of this release (1.6.24)
along with the following message and preferably
additional information about your setup:

The sector size on /dev/sdb is 2048 bytes.  Parted is known not to work properly
with drives with sector sizes other than 512 bytes.

uname -a
Linux mypc 2.6.13-15.8-smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 
x86_64 GNU/Linux

SuSE Linux 10

scsi4 : Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 1.3.11
        <Adaptec 39320A Ultra320 SCSI adapter>
        aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512 SCBs

  Vendor: SC U320/  Model: SATA16R           Rev: R0.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
 target4:0:10: asynchronous.
scsi4:A:10:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 32
 target4:0:10: Beginning Domain Validation
 target4:0:10: wide asynchronous.
 target4:0:10: FAST-160 WIDE SCSI 320.0 MB/s DT IU QAS RTI WRFLOW PCOMP (6.25 
ns, offset 127)
 target4:0:10: Ending Domain Validation
SCSI device sdb: 2536468480 2048-byte hdwr sectors (5194687 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 2536468480 2048-byte hdwr sectors (5194687 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
 sdb: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi4, channel 0, id 10, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi4, channel 0, id 10, lun 0,  type 0
  Vendor: SC U320/  Model: SATA16R           Rev: R0.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03

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