On Monday 27 October 2003 01:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 10:35 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > On cooker list, every single release cycle > > since i'm lurking on it, i see a thread starting > > about a month before scheduled release > > date. In this thread someone pleads for more > > testing/time and to kick the release date > > a little further into the future. The answer > > to those posters is always the same: > > "Bah, that was said also in the last cycle, > > and it went OK, so we don't need another > > beta. We don't need more time" > > Damian, I'm not expressing an opinion, just exploring. It seems to me > that the big question is 'why did this problem only surface so late > in the pre-release cycle?'. There must be some connection with the > kind of people (their available equipment) who do the earlier stage > testing. The next question has to be 'how can a more representative > sample of hardware be found during the testing phase?'. Longer time > isn't enough, I think, unless we can answer those questions. > > Anne This may have been caught earlier if someone like me had been more experienced and associated the death of the drives with the OS. I reasoned that since they were OEM drives that the dealer had just recieved a bad batch. Ones with faulty capacitors or something. I did not get truly suspicious until the dealers repair dept. rep indicated that I seemed to be the only one with the problem. That is when I came to the list and asked the question. So, what I am saying is unless someone at Mandrake had tested with a OEM LG CDROM of recent vintage, they would have no way of knowing there was a problem. All,,,, All other Brands and CDRWs seem to be ok. Now I know that a OS can fry electronic equipment, before I never would have believed it was possible. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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