(Putting Mark Lord and linux-ide in cc:) Mark, Thomas has tried to use wiper.sh / hdparm v9.28 to trim a SSD and it failed. See below: This is with the openSUSE 2.6.34 kernel. On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Thomas Hertweck <Thomas.Hertweck@xxxxxx> wrote: <snip> > I have now installed openSUSE 11.3 on a OCZ Vertex 2E SSD. I used a > standard ext4 filesystem, the mount options at the moment are > "rw,noatime,acl,user_xattr". Unfortunately, wiper.sh doesn't work at all. > > $> wiper.sh --verbose --commit /dev/sdb1 > wiper.sh: Linux SATA SSD TRIM utility, version 2.6, by Mark Lord. > wiper.sh: This tool is DANGEROUS! Please read and understand > wiper.sh: /usr/share/doc/packages/hdparm/README.wiper > wiper.sh: before going any further. > rootdev=/dev/sdb1 > fsmode2: fsmode=read-write > /: fstype=ext4 > freesize = 45338732 KB, reserved = 453387 KB > Preparing for online TRIM of free space on /dev/sdb1 (ext4 mounted > read-write at /). > This operation could silently destroy your data. Are you sure (y/N)? y > Creating temporary file (44885345 KB).. > Syncing disks.. > Beginning TRIM operations.. > get_trimlist=/sbin/hdparm --fibmap WIPER_TMPFILE.13467 > /dev/sdb: > trimming 89770696 sectors from 1493 ranges > FAILED: Input/output error > Removing temporary file.. > Syncing disks.. > Aborted. > > No joy, obviously. So what can I do? <snip> > The motherboard, by the > way, is an Asus P6X58D-E, the SSD is attached to one of the 3GB/s SATA > ports (Intel chip). There's also a 6GB/s SATA port (Marvell chip) on the > board, but I couldn't find Linux support for that (that's why I haven't > used this port). > > > Well,... See above. > > Regards, > Thomas Mark, any thoughts why it didn't work. Have you added anything relevant to hdparm since v.9.28 that would help? Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
