[lug] Fwd: Mandrake 9.2 Warning

[The Matt]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 15:22, The Matt wrote:
> 
> 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.

In fact, it looks like the problem was seen way back on May 11:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=53201

The fact that some of the deaths were from GameCD's makes me think
whatever kernel patch Mandrake included in 9.2 that caused it has been
in Gentoo's gaming-sources for a while.
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