I guess the real question is, will the average person who is contemplating trying out Linux going to have heard/going to remember that Mandrake kills your CD drive, or the actual details of the problem. All too often it is the misinformation that matters.
LeRoy > 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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