Re: track 0 problems - zero-length partition?

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:08:21PM +1000, Graeme M Bailey wrote:
> Greetings from Far North Queensland Australia,

Gday mate!  (Greetings from Melbourne)

> While trying to access a new storage HDD
> I got a message saying that I had found a bug in parted
> and to email you people with
> the version (1.6.3) and...
> "Assertion (dev->length > 0) at linux.c:697 
> in function init_file() failed"
> 
> I have a Seagate ST340014A hard disk drive
> with a possible corrupted track zero.

I have problems with these overheating in Melbourne!  They just don't
build hard disks to .au spec :/

What exactly did you type?

> The drive seems to have acquired a zero-length partition?

No... this is claiming that your hard disk has a size of 0.
Weird.  Unless you typed in a partition device...

> Now neither Linux nor windoze will let me access the disk
> 
> The linux (RH9) kernel log reported:
> 
> hdd: [DM6:DDO] [remap +63] [4111/255/63]hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=63, high=0,
> low=63, sector=0

That's no good.

> the actual parameters of the disk are: (I think) 19158 16 255 the LBA
> version is 4865 255 63 and with the limiting jumper 4111 255 63

These parameters are irrelevant.  Don't worry about them.

Cheers,
Andrew