Ugghh, this brings up the question of why a manufacturer would make something like this... Don't answer, rhetorica question... Thanks for the answers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <lxy at cloudnet.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Mandrake 9.2 is dangerious... > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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