HDF5 "packedbits.h5" { DATASET "/DS08BITS" { DATATYPE H5T_STD_I8LE DATASPACE SIMPLE { ( 8, 8 ) / ( 8, 8 ) } PACKED_BITS OFFSET=8 LENGTH=1 DATA { (0,0): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (1,0): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (2,0): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (3,0): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (4,0): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (5,0): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (6,0): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (7,0): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 } } } h5dump error: Packed Bit offset+length value(9) too large. Max is 8