[wplug] Mandrake 9.2 & LG-based CD-ROM drives [fixed]
Vanco, Don
don.vanco at agilysys.com
Tue Oct 28 10:06:58 EST 2003
Russ Schneider wrote:
> Just got this from Mandrake:
> Problem Description:
> A problem was discovered where the kernel would destroy certain LG-
> based CD-ROM devices. This problem has been fixed in the kernels
>From the errata:
"........reusing a command is against the specification and LG has reused
the FLUSH_CACHE command to modify the firmware of the drive...."
Wow - that's some brilliant design there. LG must have spent an
afternoon learning to read (and implement) specs in a class being taught by
Microsoft....
Don
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