Repeatable assertion w/ stock Kingston U3 USB stick

[Tuomas Heino]

# parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 1.6.21
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS 
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/sdb
(parted) print
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.21), and the following 
message:

Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) at disk_dos.c:596 in 
function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
Ignore/Cancel? C
Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-1995.999 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.016   1995.999  primary   fat16       boot, lba, type=0e
(parted) q
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

# fdisk /dev/sdb

Command (m for help): x

Expert command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 129 heads, 32 sectors, 990 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl     Start      Size ID
 1 80   1   1    0 128  32  996         32    4087775 0e
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(996, 128, 32) logical=(990, 33, 31)
 2 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00
 3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00
 4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00

Expert command (m for help): q

I can send some sectors from the drive if needed for testing.