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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/

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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
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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

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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.

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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 !!!

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