LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2

[bconway at alum.wpi.edu (Brian J. Conway)]

The root of the problem finally showed itself:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=106716279103854&w=2 . 
It's a combination of broken firmware in the drive and a kernel bug.  I
managed to torch a crappy LG drive on a non-Mandrake system using the same
(or similar) BitKeeper pull that they used in their kernel.  It's too bad
it made it into the final release, though.

-b

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:13:37 -0400
David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/1737244
> 
> Posted by michael on Saturday October 25, @05:36PM
> from the whoopsie dept.
> An anonymous reader writes "The latest offering of Mandrake's
> distribution, 9.2, has been found to not only be incompatible with some
> LG CD-ROM drives, but to destroy them during the installation process.
> Mandrake have posted information on their errata page and further
> information can be found on this thread [google]. Along with over 350Mb
> of updates within a week of release, it's not been a good start for this
> latest release."
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