On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:59, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Several people are reporting that installing the 9.2 totally > fried their LG cdrom drive. Luis Alves on cooker is reporting > that problem on an IBM PC 300 PL machine, with a LG CRD-8400B. On > MandrakeClub an article[1] reports that this happens on a Dell > Optiplex GX1 machine, with CRD-8482B and CRD-8400B models.
> I've had confirmations that with another LG model, the HL-DT-ST > CD-ROM GCR-8520B, 9.2 worked nice (e.g. did NOT do any damage to > the cdrom drive). Also, with the HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8522B, > 9.2rc2 worked nice (it's then -probable- 9.2 will work nice). Might help to also report the breed of IDE controller involved, and/or the CPU brand and speed since it sounds like a combination of factors is necessary to fry a drive. Cheers; Leon
