[wplug] Mandrake 9.2 & LG-based CD-ROM drives [fixed]

[Tim Lesher]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:06:58AM -0500, Vanco, Don wrote:
> 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....

Nah. Companies like that have been around since before Microsoft was a
gleam in Paul Allen's eye.

Even so, I have to wonder how thoroughly skilled a company can be when
they make everything from cell phones to clothes dryers to CD-ROM
drives to air conditioners to refrigerators...

-- 
Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws>
http://www.lesher.ws