Guest jkruer01 Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Hello Everyone, When I was installing 9.2 on my home PC, I was bitten by the LG CD-ROM drive bug. However, I had not read anything about this problem with 10.0. Is it still a problem in 10.0 or has it been fixed? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDC Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Hi! I have an LG cdrom and Mandrake 10 and i havent got any problem with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest betadan Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 i don't think it's a bug between linux and LG. i've seen lots of new lg drives not read cd's even reatil cd's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 The LG drive problem was fixed very quickly so your Lgdrive is safe to use in Mandrake 10. Basicly what happened was that LG changed the commands for its drives. So when some distros of linux used the 'flush' command to clean out the onboard drive memory it actually 'flushed' all the memory on the drive. Including the hardwares firmware memory area. Thus rendering the drive totaly unusable untill it was reinstalled with the updates LG firmware. All would have been fine if LG had not changed its command list or if they had at least told someone about it. Mandrake was the first but not the only distro this problem cropped up in. Basicly all the 'first adopters' in linux. Those distros that used old kernels because of stability and proven reliability didn't have the problem. Just one of the things that crops up when you want to use the latest and greatest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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