On Wednesday 29 October 2003 05:02 pm, robin wrote:
> > The hardware doesn't blow up, just it's non standard bios
> > is corrupted. The drive can be fixed by replacing the firmware.
> Now that I didn't know.
Well, that was my own conjecture. But, I just read, believe it
was the cooker list, that LG is now talkin to Mandrake and that
recovering the drive is doable, just not likely by users.
So of course I've got some thoughts about that. Why send a CD
drive back to the manufacturer, to have the firmware re-programmed
when the expense of shipping is worth more than the drive? It does
indicate LG knows that many of their drive's firmware was non
compliant and didn't disclose this to many, including end users.
I'm not backin off my collusion theory either. Where there's smoke
(junk fake non-compliant hardware), there's fire (M$ - ready
mades).
Better to adopt that attitude than use hardware by trial'n
error. No one has a Dell, Compaq, HP, et al, where they weren't
told up front that it only supports the hardware as is, runnin the
OS and software it was shipped with, any modifications are the
users sole responsibility. That's a big clue, not upgradedable,
not changeable, or your on your own.
A little more light on packet writing and UDF,
http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-December/001409.html
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