On Monday 27 October 2003 10:27 am, Aaron Thompson wrote: > Bad news for Mandrake Lovers... 9.2 could cause physical > damage... > > If you have a cdrom from LG Electronics (Suposedly Dell uses > these) it would be a good idea to _not_ install Mandrake 9.2 > right now. > > http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35661.htm > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#badlg > > --<CLIP>-- > Error scenario: Installing 9.2 and being told unable to install > the base system and subsequent reboot reveals that CD-ROM drive > is physically dead. > > Why: According to LG Electronics, their ODD (Optical Disc Drive) > products do not support Linux nor do they test with Linux. > Unfortunately, many Dell computers (possibly others) come with > these CD-ROM drives. > > Solution: Currently there is no solution or work-around for > this issue; it is still under investigation. Damage occurs even > when doing a network install. At this point, please do not > install Mandrake Linux 9.2 on any computer containing a > LG-based CD-ROM drive or it will damage your CD-ROM drive! We > are actively looking for a solution to this problem. > --<CLIP>-- Here is the quote from one of the Mandrake kernel developers: On Saturday 25 October 2003 07:20 pm, Juan Quintela wrote: 21mdk just updated (vdanen should be doing the official update) fixes that problem. Only LG plain CD-ROMS are affected. Later, Juan. PD. Yep, whoeved decided at LG that reusing for UPLOAD_FIRMAWARE command FLUSH_CACHE comand should be shoot. Twice. So it is not really Mandrakes fault at all. -- Bret Baptist Systems and Technical Support Specialist bbaptist at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 x17 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services ------------------------------------------ Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list