Assertion failed in parted 1.6.19

[tim.oldham]

Assertion (cyl_size <= 255 * 63) at disk_dos.c:556 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

This was when during
parted -s /dev/sdf print
on a RHEL4U5 server with parted-1.6.19-16.EL installed.

/dev/sdf is an iSCSI LUN presented from an Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 server running iscsi enterprise target, presenting a 64MB (yes, MB) LUN that is already formatted with NTFS. The iSCSI software initiator that is mapping the LUN is iscsi-initiator-utils-4.0.3.0-5.

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