27 Oct
2003
27 Oct
'03
07:19
On Monday 27 October 2003 03:59, Jonathan Lim wrote:
From Slashdot: I just read a post from Alan Cox, it appears that if you send a flush cache command to the specific LG drives or their compaq rebadged ones, the drive gets fried. So this really has nothing to do with Mandrake and everything to do with a poorly designed drive.
It is not Linux, it is Mandrake who put an *experimental* kernel patch into a *production* release. It was very stupid. The patch was meant for ide cd-rw drives in which case you want to flush. That is why the LG CD-RW drives are not affected, only the normal CD-ROM drives. -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) Linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon
Your clarification is much appreciated. LW999