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Am 21.05.2015 um 11:56 schrieb Sheng Yong:
> When writing fastmap, there is no guarantee that two same vol ID are
> written to flash by mistake. Although this unlikely happens, we still
> should check it when attaching.

Not sure if I understand the error scenario.
How can this happen?

Did you hit that care or is this theoretical?

Thanks,
//richard