Hi, Several people are reporting that installing the 9.2 totally fried their LG cdrom drive. Luis Alves on cooker is reporting that problem on an IBM PC 300 PL machine, with a LG CRD-8400B. On MandrakeClub an article[1] reports that this happens on a Dell Optiplex GX1 machine, with CRD-8482B and CRD-8400B models.
I've had confirmations that with another LG model, the HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8520B, 9.2 worked nice (e.g. did NOT do any damage to the cdrom drive). Also, with the HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8522B, 9.2rc2 worked nice (it's then -probable- 9.2 will work nice). For the moment, it seems it's related to LG CRD-84xx drives. Please, every people with an LG model who already installed 9.2 (download or powerpack), please report the model of your LG drive, and whether it's still alive or not :). Please ask that also to your friends who don't read cooker/expert lists. Also, in the following days, one might consider not installing 9.2 with LG drives, until we can provide a workaround to the problem. You can have exact model name of your cdrom by looking at the corresponding proc file. For example, if your CDROM is the first IDE medium of your second IDE adapter, its name is "hdc" and you can do the following to see the model: cat /proc/ide/hdc/model You can even do that at the very beginning of the graphical install, by going to the second console (Ctrl Alt F2) and typing the previous command. This should be safe as the "fry" always occurs at the beginning of the package installation. Then, reboot your computer. Thanks! Ref: [1] http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Splatt_Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=12568&forum=9 -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
