[lug] Fwd: Mandrake 9.2 Warning

[Crawford Rainwater]

>From one of our clients who has a Mandrake fancy.

--- Crawford

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> From: "Link, Chuck M" <Chuck.Link at med.va.gov>
> Subject: [HARDHATS] Mandrake 9.2 Warning
> Date: 29 Oct 2003 13:03:20 -0800
> 
> "A problem has been discovered with certain LG -based CD-ROM drives and
> Mandrake Linux 9.2. 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. "
>  
> I haven't looked to see if Mandrake has posted a solution.
>