[wplug] Mandrake 9.2 and LG writable opticals

[Vanco, Don]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Harrold [mailto:jmh17 at pitt.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 9:05 AM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Mandrake 9.2 and LG writable opticals
> 
> 
> Sometime in October Vanco, Don assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | I mentioned this as part of another post, thought it worthy 
> of passing on
> | for any of those that are contemplating Mandrake 9.2 and 
> have writable LG
> | optical drives.
> | http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#badlg
> 
> this is really weird. i remember back in the day, xwindows 
> would screw up
> monitors if the wrong refresh rate was used. 
	Ah yes - the "good old days" - I remember purposely roasting a few
mono terminals this way...

> i've never heard of linux
> killing a cdrom drive. have you heard about this with any 
> other distro?
	I've only heard that the latest Fedora core (.95) (nee Red Hat) does
_not_ have this issue...

Don