On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While MDK 9.2 might have been the first distribution to get its name in > the news for destroying CD-ROMs, I saw a posting on the Gentoo website > this evening that someone killed their LG CD-ROM by installing Gentoo. > > Of course that doesn't help the bad press that Mandrake has had. > > LeRoy
LeRoy: I understand that Suse has had some problems, too. I'm not sure that the press has been all that bad. Once the root cause had been identified (some LG CD-ROMs think that FLUSH_CACHE means RE-PROGRAM YOURSELF), the general attitude on those sites that I read was that LG screwed up and it ain't Mandrake's fault. This is reinforced by the fact that only the original LG CD's had this defect; LG corrected it in a firmware update. To me, the truly impressive part of the whole episode was how quickly it went from the inital field reports to resolution. The first report of which I'm aware appeared a Club forum on October 17. One week later, Mandrake's home page reported that a serious problem with certain LG CD-ROMs had not only been reported, but the cause had been traced to LG's non-compliance with the ATAPI standard and the addition of packet writing to the kernel. I spent 40 years of doing a lot of that kind of problem solving, and those guys did a damn fine job. -- cmg
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