On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Shawn wrote: > Uh, I guess I don't see how a physical damage could occur to a CD-ROM drive > from an install. Am I overlooking something on this? Any device that has upgradeable software can be made inoperable. All it takes is updating the firmware with a trojaned or corrupt version. In this case the drive managed to to flash itself with random cached data, making the firmware image invalid, and therefore making the drive inoperable. I remember reading on Slashdot not too long ago about a 4X DVD drive that actually CAUGHT FIRE when burning discs, and the fix was a firmware upgrade. -Brian _______________________________________________ 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