From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266077AbUBCQRh (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:17:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266074AbUBCQRh (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:17:37 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:46758 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266077AbUBCQRf (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:17:35 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:17:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20040203131837.GF3967@aurora.fi.muni.cz> <401FB78A.5010902@zvala.cz> <200402031602.i13G2NFi002400@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-187-164-3.dd.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YNYGvq0p3PzvviaVtl/tO7yxNPQ= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org John Bradford writes: >> That's not what he said and, I assure you that if he unmounted >> it there would not be any buffers to flush. Execute `man umount`. > > I think the original poster was referring to the cache on the device. > > I.E. > > mount disc > view contents > unmount disc > erase disc - but don't erase the CD-R drive's cache of the media > mount disc > view old contents of the media from the CD-R drive's cache If that's the case, the drive is broken. We can't help that. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se