On Monday 17 November 2003 07:26 am, Anarky wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > >On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:07 pm, Anarky wrote: > >> any idea if the downloadable isos can still break cdroms or > >>if they have a fixed version? > > > > Well first of all it's the LG drives, not Mandrake that needs > >fixin. Those with LG (or rebadged drives which are actually LG's) > >should up date their firmware ... even if they don't install Mdk > >9.2, even if they're confirmed Windoze users. The drives should > >not be used as is. > > > > To answer your question tho, The iso's on the mirrors are the > >same ones released to club members, the same ones that are sold. > >They can render a buggy LG CDrom as useless. The fix is to fix > >the LG's. http://us.lgservice.com/ click on 'Device Drivers', > >then 'Cdrom'. > > I saw the fix and everything ... but still I don't believe it's a nice > thing to leave software that does that like that .. might make people > (me too) think that mandrake stuff isn't all that great ... which is not > a nice thing :)
So even though you intellectually know that it is not Mandrake'a fault, you are still blaming them? It's not a nice thing for hardware manufacturers to make things that break when standards compliant software tries to access them. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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