Can't access 3TB USB drive in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8?
Issue
- RHEL system has been upgraded to RHEL 5.8 with kernel version
kernel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5installed. Still unable to access 3TB drive, accessing the drive results in below error message:
$ sudo parted /dev/sdb
Warning: Device /dev/sdb has a logical sector size of 4096. Not all parts of GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL.
GNU Parted 1.8.1
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) mklabel gpt
You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:
Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.
Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:
Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking
the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/
Please check this version prior to bug reporting.
If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,
please visit the GNU Parted website:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
for further information.
Your report should contain the version of this release (1.8.1)
along with the error message below, the output of
parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print
and additional information about your setup you consider important.
Error: SEGV_MAPERR (Address not mapped to object)Abort
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
- kernel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5
- parted
- External disks (directly connected via USB or Firewire interfaces)
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