> On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 01:03, Greg Meyer wrote: >> On Saturday 25 October 2003 07:20 pm, Juan Quintela wrote: >> > >>>>> "marc" == Marc Guise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > marc> I read the post about Mdk 9.2 and LG on mandrakeusers.org. I >> have cd-rw drive, marc> model HL-DT-ST GCE 8400b and I have Mdk >> 9.2rc2 running. There are no problems marc> with my LG drive >> > >> > 21mdk just updated (vdanen should be doing the official update) >> fixes that problem. Only LG plain CD-ROMS are affected. >> > >> > Later, Juan. >> > >> > PD. Yep, whoeved decided at LG that reusing for UPLOAD_FIRMAWARE >> command FLUSH_CACHE comand should be shoot. Twice. >> >> SO it turns out to be a firmware bug after all that. I really hope >> you guys don't take the heat for this in the court of public opinion. > > Yes, it is a firmware bug, and yes, the LG drives are responsible for > this. But, it is Mandrakes own fault that this happens.
I don't agree. > If you take > beta / heavy modified kernels instead of kernels that have been tested > by the entire linux community, you can expect things like these to > happen. AFAIK (I may be wrong), SuSE has been shipping with this patch for quite a while (AFAIK it is their patch), and there have been some reports of SuSE doing the same thing to LG drives ... And, if no-one found this problem before, in a well-known patch which is supposed to be merged into 2.6.x, how was it going to be found? > True, strange that this bug was able to tunnel trough all RCs, > but this once again proves that it's better to use the entire linux > community as testers instead of a few beta testers, i.e. use only stock > kernels. OK, so you want us to ship with a totally vanilla kernel? No XFS? OSS only (no ALSA)? No software suspend? No ACLs? No cloop? No CIFS? BTW, there is a vanilla kernel in contrib. How many people actually run it? > Mandrake is not a linux distribution known for stability, let's please > take stability as top priority for Mandrake 10.0. My servers tell me otherwise (some machines with clients I haven't seen in over a year because they haven't ever had problems with them). They wouldn't be running Mandrake without ACLs/XFS (which is one reason they don't run Redhat BTW, it's too much work to get a real samba server running on Redhat and a few other distros which have kernels without the features I need). > This way Mandrake > will get the good name that belongs to such a cool distribution. A distro with no features, that's cool. Not! Regards, Buchan
