On Friday 31 October 2003 12:05 am, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote: > Here's a interesting one for you Mandrake fans, as seen on another > mailing list. > > > Some LG CD-ROM drives that do not meet the ATAPI specification are being > > destroyed by Mandrake 9.2. Not mandrake's fault, LG's fault for > > interpreting the FLUSH_CACHE command as the UPLOAD_FIRMWARE command! > > Here's the link to the errata: > > > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 > > > > "The kernel that comes shipped with Mandrake Linux 9.2 and early > > updates would send a FLUSH_CACHE command to the drive which would make > > drive inoperable by overwriting its firmware. Unfortunately, many Dell > > computers (possibly others) come with these CD-ROM drives." > > Kurt
I thought Mandrake released a patch to "fix" that.... -- RedHat 8.0 Kernel 2.4.20-20.8, KDE 3.1.4, Xfree86 4.2.1 7:15am up 26 days, 10:02, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.17, 0.09 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
