>>>>> "bg" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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.
bg> /. posted a really badly researched post on this (with a bad title too), bg> but it seems public opinion is that hardware shouldn't be vulnerable. bg> It wouldn't hurt though to have an official position sent to /., I think bg> they should reasonably update the summary to indicate that this is a bg> hardware issue that would also affect other users, and hopefully push the bg> availability of updates and how to use them. Ok, official stance (will sent to slashdot): It is not related with linux specially, it can happens in Windows also. It is more, you can search and find that people are also having problems in windows. Problem: sending a FLUSH_COMMAND to an LG drive kills it. Expected output: Ignore the command/return one error. FLUSH_COMMAND support is not required. Real Problem: not having implemented this command is ok, but reusing it for anything else is against the specs. It appears that LG decided to reuse this command for modifying the firmware. Hope this helps, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
