[lug] Fwd: Mandrake 9.2 Warning

[The Matt]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 15:08, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> >From one of our clients who has a Mandrake fancy.
> 
> --- Crawford
> 
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> 
> > 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.
> > 

Yeah, it's not fun.  Gentoo's forums are also running a thread or two:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=100348

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=100434

The fact that Gentoo can h0rk an LG as well shows that LG really screwed
up somewhere (and it isn't Mandrake's fault).  The note in the second
one about how Dell servers (and some desktops) have the bad CD-ROM
drives is worth knowing.
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