On 2/14/2018 3:22 PM, Chris Hartt wrote: > no partition table. i've not used parted before and wanted to only do > the non-destructive things that were available, like print and select > device and help. i've got another disc (sdh) with no partition table in > the same machine and it can be selected by parted without crashing. i > had selected and printed the information from sde previously so it was a > bit of a surprise not to be able to do it a second time. there is one > difference between sde and the other disc sdh and that is that sde is in > a port-multiplier box. don't know if any of this helps or not.
So parted /dev/sde print crashes? Can you run dd if=/dev/sde count=1 | hd and send the results?