[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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