Re: Unknown Disklabel

[Andrew Clausen]

Thomas Roelz wrote:
> 
> Andrew Clausen wrote:
> <snip>
> > > Trying "parted print" yields:
> > >
> > > ERROR: Unable to open /dev/hda - Unrecognised disk label
> > >
> > > fdisk has no problems with this disk. Have you ever seen
> > > this phenomenon?
> >
> > Weird.  Could you send in the partition table?
> >
> >         # dd if=/dev/hda if=table bs=512 count=1
> 
> OK, here it is....

Arghhh!  It doesn't conform to the conventions that "everyone" agreed
to...!  The partition ends beyond cylinder 1024.  Therefore, it should
have the CHS set to 1022 or 1023.  It is set to 385 (!).

Since this is invalid, Parted treats it as not being a MS-DOS partition
table (because the signature isn't enough to verify it).

I guess I need to play with Windows ME, to see if there is a pattern
to this madness!  :-(

Andrew Clausen