Hi Paul,
On Sep 28, 2010, at 7:00 AM, seismic wrote:
>
> Hi Elena,
>
> thanks for the reply. Here is the error I am getting:
>
> HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.5-patch1) thread 0:
> #000: ..\..\..\src\H5Dio.c line 174 in H5Dread(): can't read data
> major: Dataset
> minor: Read failed
> #001: ..\..\..\src\H5Dio.c line 404 in H5D_read(): can't read data
> major: Dataset
> minor: Read failed
> #002: ..\..\..\src\H5Dcontig.c line 520 in H5D_contig_read(): contiguous
> read
> failed
> major: Dataset
> minor: Read failed
> #003: ..\..\..\src\H5Dscatgath.c line 516 in H5D_scatgath_read(): file
> gather
> failed
> major: Low-level I/O
> minor: Read failed
> #004: ..\..\..\src\H5Dscatgath.c line 252 in H5D_gather_file(): read error
> major: Dataspace
> minor: Read failed
> #005: ..\..\..\src\H5Defl.c line 451 in H5D_efl_readvv(): block write
> failed
> major: Low-level I/O
> minor: Write failed
> #006: ..\..\..\src\H5Defl.c line 280 in H5D_efl_read(): external file
> address
> overflowed
> major: External file list
> minor: Address overflowed
>
> A bit more information - I am trying to read part of a 1D dataset which
> consists of a compound data type. The raw data is held in an external binary
> file. I can use the HDF5 library (C++ bindings) to read the data from the
> external file okay, except if I try to access data after about the 2GB
> point.
>
> The error message above "external file address overflowed" looks
> suspiciously like a large file access problem?
>
> I have also had a quick look at the HDF5 source code. It seems to make use
> of 'fseeko' if it is available otherwise it uses 'fseek' to position the
> file pointer. I suspect this could be why it doesn't work on 32-bit windows.
> I believe Windows uses _fseeki64 rather than fseeko.
Ah, yes, you are probably correct. I've filed a bug in our issue
tracker to investigate and correct this.
Thanks,
Quincey
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