Re: Removable USB device contents cached after removal?

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On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:12:16PM -0700, Matthew Mastracci wrote:

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> 1.  Insert card into reader.
> 2.  Mount card as directory somewhere in root filesystem, list contents 
> of card
> 3.  dd if=/dev/sdd1 count=1024 bs=1024 | hexdump
> 	- results in correct filesystem dump
> 4.  Remove card from reader.
> 5.  dd if=/dev/sdd1 count=1024 bs=1024 | hexdump
> 	- same filesystem dump as before!
> 6.  cd to mountpoint, contents are still available
> 7.  dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/null
>          - approx 3MB of card data still available
> 8.  umount the mountpoint from before

Did you try `eject sdd` after this, and if not, try, and see how it
works.

> 9.  dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/null results in "No medium found"

usb-storage behaves differently in 2.6 than in 2.4, maybe this is the
problem for you now.

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