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| Thread ID: 39016 | 2003-10-24 23:47:00 | alert for mandrake fans | yang11 (170) | Press F1 |
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| 186374 | 2003-10-26 21:49:00 | I believe it would affect the burners too. It has to do with something that the kernel does... so i wouldnt put it back in just yet.... | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 186375 | 2003-10-27 02:06:00 | Just CD-ROMs as far as I know. Some of the links I posted above have lists of known good/bad drives. AFAIK it kills the drive when the kernel boots so it would still kill an affected drive after the installation. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 186376 | 2003-10-27 09:41:00 | > Just an upadate: The problem seems to be at LG's end > rather than mandrake (IMO atleast). > > In the affected models they decided to use the > FLUSH_CACHE command for uploading new firmware so > when the kernel boots it trashes the firmware. > I suppose thats what you get for using such a lame OS. |
BIFF (1) | ||
| 186377 | 2003-10-27 18:22:00 | Right. Where do you get the 9.2 ? I am not a mandrake club member, and i can only get rc2... Please help |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 186378 | 2003-10-28 00:15:00 | They are making the ISOs public at the end of the month . Hopefully they will include the patch to work around the problem in the LG drives . There are more complete details up on their errata page now . |
bmason (508) | ||
| 186379 | 2003-11-14 03:13:00 | Just an update incase anyone reading this was affected. LG have finally posted instructions to recover drives that have been killed by the bug. "Head over to http://us.lgservice.com/ , Choose Product support, then Device driver, CD-ROM and "Emergency download for Physical Dead Drive from Mandrake Linux 9.2" There is a Dead.gif file explaining the way to reflash the drive." |
bmason (508) | ||
| 186380 | 2003-11-14 05:40:00 | > > Just an upadate: The problem seems to be at LG's > end > > rather than mandrake (IMO atleast). > > > > In the affected models they decided to use the > > FLUSH_CACHE command for uploading new firmware so > > when the kernel boots it trashes the firmware. > > > > I suppose thats what you get for using such a lame > OS. You obviously haven't given Linux a decent go have you? Btw you can use a different kernal to boot if need be. |
mark.p (383) | ||
| 186381 | 2003-11-14 06:26:00 | > I suppose thats what you get for using such a lame > OS. Actually its nothing to do with the "OS". The problem is in the LG firmware. It just happens that the kernel (which has nothing to do with the rest of the "OS") ran a command that was used to do something that it shouldn't have been used to do. The CD-RW would have been expecting the firmware. The problem is with the firmware and not the Linux kernel at all. Did you notice that no other brands of CD-RW's were affected? |
segfault (655) | ||
| 186382 | 2003-11-14 07:59:00 | Just been poking around a few other forums and it appears MD 9.2 may have other "issues" as well. The "ME" of MD maybe? So beware all. | mark.p (383) | ||
| 186383 | 2003-11-14 21:50:00 | Umm.. Can you be a bit more specific?? Cheers |
rmcb (164) | ||
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