My analysis of the MBR can be found in the following bug-parted mailing list post: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2011-02/msg00013.html
For those not wishing to read the analysis, the summary is that the partition table is as follows: Assuming my calculations are correct, a head_size of 157 sectors was determined. This is the number of sectors that would pass under a single disk head in a single rotation of the disk. Unfortunately this value is too large for the MBR specification (range is 1 to 63 sectors), and hence the partition table on the disk device is indeed invalid. It would nice if parted/libparted were able to cleanly indicate that the partition table was invalid as opposed to throwing a stack trace. In order for this to happen, the code for parted/libparted would need enhancement. Parted is a separate project from GParted. GParted benefits from and uses the libparted library from the Parted project. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/710696 Title: Verbatim USB stick crashes gParted -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
