On Thursday 26 May 2005 08:54 am, St�phane Pinel wrote: > Le 26 mai 05, � 15:10, H.J.Bathoorn a �crit : > > On Thursday 26 May 2005 14:53, St�phane Pinel wrote: > >> Is Mandrake 9.2 know as a CD_Rom drive killer ? > > > > Definitely a "killer" see: > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 for > > more details. > > > > The specific LG drives could be reactivated with a firmware upgrade, > > though. > > So they weren't realy dead.......they just smelled funny:) > > Thanks HarM and Derek ! > > I would loved to hear that when I calles Mandrake Support last year > instead of buy a new CD-ROm Drive. > > I've surfed over Dell website and found many firmware upgrades except > the one I need (for a Dell PowerEdge 500SC). The other issue is that > this seems to be DOS floppy disc images. My Dell has an old Redhat 7.0 > running on it. > > Thank you. > > St�phane Stephane, don't feel to bad, I had two of the affected drives, both toast before the fault was discovered and was able to restore only one of them. The other one died a horrible death when a hammer traveling at about 50+kph ran into it. Ah, such is life. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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