[Parted-maintainers] Bug#293307: parted does not recognize MS-DOS partition table on iPod

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

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Package: parted
Version: 1.6.21-1
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Parted does not recognize the ms-dos partition table on my iPod.
Although the kernel sees the partitions and they are listed by fdisk 
on an i386 linux box.

steinlin@tigerente:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb print
Error: Unable to open /dev/sdb - unrecognised disk label.
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

output of fdisk (on another box):
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40000536576 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4863 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1           5       40131    0  Empty
/dev/sda2   *           6        4863    39021885    b  W95 FAT32

steinlin@tigerente:~$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   3     0   19535040 hda
   3     1         31 hda1
   3     2         28 hda2
   3     3         28 hda3
   3     4         28 hda4
   3     5         28 hda5
   3     6        256 hda6
   3     7        256 hda7
   3     8        256 hda8
   3     9        800 hda9
   3    10    1464844 hda10
   3    11    2728660 hda11
   3    12    5242880 hda12
   3    13        800 hda13
   3    14     512000 hda14
   3    15    9584144 hda15
   8    16   39063024 sdb
   8    17      40131 sdb1
   8    18   39021885 sdb2

I formated this iPod with the iPod firmaware updater on windows.
Attached you can find the first 512 Bytes of /dev/sdb (the iPod).

Gaudenz

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_CH, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

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ii  libreadline5                5.0-10       GNU readline and history libraries

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