illogic-al Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 from cooker ML. thought i'd drop a note here From: Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com>Reply-To: cooker@linux-mandrake.com To: cooker@linux-mandrake.com Cc: kernel@mandrakesoft.com Subject: [Cooker] [iMPORTANT] 9.2 install potentially frying some LG cdrom drives Date: 22 Oct 2003 13:59:26 +0200 Hi, Several people are reporting that installing the 9.2 totally fried their LG cdrom drive. Luis Alves on cooker is reporting that problem on an IBM PC 300 PL machine, with a LG CRD-8400B. On MandrakeClub an article[1] reports that this happens on a Dell Optiplex GX1 machine, with CRD-8482B and CRD-8400B models. I've had confirmations that with another LG model, the HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8520B, 9.2 worked nice (e.g. did NOT do any damage to the cdrom drive). Also, with the HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8522B, 9.2rc2 worked nice (it's then -probable- 9.2 will work nice). For the moment, it seems it's related to LG CRD-84xx drives. Please, every people with an LG model who already installed 9.2 (download or powerpack), please report the model of your LG drive, and whether it's still alive or not :). Please ask that also to your friends who don't read cooker/expert lists. Also, in the following days, one might consider not installing 9.2 with LG drives, until we can provide a workaround to the problem. You can have exact model name of your cdrom by looking at the corresponding proc file. For example, if your CDROM is the first IDE medium of your second IDE adapter, its name is "hdc" and you can do the following to see the model: cat /proc/ide/hdc/model You can even do that at the very beginning of the graphical install, by going to the second console (Ctrl Alt F2) and typing the previous command. This should be safe as the "fry" always occurs at the beginning of the package installation. Then, reboot your computer. Thanks! Ref: [1] http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op...c=12568&forum=9 -- Guillaume Cottenceau -http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 Well, that sucks, I guess I'll be waiting alitle longer to install 9.2.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 What on earth could a software program do to burn up a cdrom drive??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 What on earth could a software program do to burn up a cdrom drive??? if the driver has some sort of bad commands it could cause the system to send the wrong signal to the cdrom drive, causing it to react incorrectly and burn itself out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted October 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 Well, that sucks, I guess I'll be waiting alitle longer to install 9.2....you have one of those CDs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 What on earth could a software program do to burn up a cdrom drive??? try hdparm -X66 /dev/hdc actually DON'T try it ... it will immediately burn out the ide interface on the cdrom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 Shite! Ok, now I'm definately waiting for Mandy 10 :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 Looks like I'm out of luck too *singing under his breath* OH WELL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germ Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 I installed 9.2 using my LG GMA-4020B DVD-RW.....no probs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 There is a post in the Installation forum that definitly burned up a drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted October 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 I installed 9.2 using my LG GMA-4020B DVD-RW.....no probs.hey germ could you please e-mail the cooker ML or GC and post your info. Or just post it here and i'll forward it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 Hey mods.... Shouldn't someone sticky this!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 So glad I did a hard drive install :shock: :roll: . This is unbelievable. Just wondering; can it fry the drive after you do a hard drive install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Well, that sucks, I guess I'll be waiting alitle longer to install 9.2....you have one of those CDs? No, I ordered the download edition on CD from www.cheapbytes.com but it should be here tommorrow or monday. Does anybody know if it's the installer or the driver? If it's just he installer, I could just dissable that drive for the install and use my burner, then reconnect the LG once I'm done installing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest J.T. Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Please read here.... http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sh...threadid=106105 I was so looking forword to 9.2 :!: now I have to buy new hardware becouse of it !!! I was almost ready to put the $$$ on the last 2 pieces of hardware for my new system. Now I have to buy new CD-drives for this old computer :x I'm not a happy camper at the moment !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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