Comment 3 for bug 710696

Since the drive now works with parted after being reformatted, I suspect a problem with the original formatting.

If you could find a similar drive for testing that would help. Otherwise we do not know exactly what the problem is.

The original report has the following line:

Assertion (head_size <= 63) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:662 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

This suggests to me that perhaps the device had an different or invalid geometry (e.g., Cylinders/Heads/Sectors), but that this was fixed when the device was reformatted.