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Am 2011-10-12 01:17, schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> You asked the drive firmware for a favour - to please check if anything |
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> can be discarded and if so to discard it. |
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> <cue Mafia voice a la GodFather> |
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> The firmware checked that it *could* discard X bytes and then figured |
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> well, maybe it will, maybe it won't, maybe it'll do it on it's own |
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> good time, but what the heck - tell the user anyway how many bytes X |
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> is. Maybe that'll make the user happy so he'll stfu and go away...... |
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> The command leads you to believe the discard was actually done, but |
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> that's not necessarily true :-) |
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> It's probably a case of the drive knows much better than you what it |
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> should do. |
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Ah, ok, Mafia implemented now ... ;-) |
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Thanks, Stefan |
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