[ale] serious problem with Mandrake 9.2 kernels

[Dow Hurst]

The LG drives I have purchased have been so compatible with SuSE 8.1 and 
8.2 that I have actively looked for them at Walmart when setting up a 
machine.  I hate to hear this news since each distro could have 
different behaviour with all the new backported patches from the 
development kernel.  I was looking at the assorted kernels available 
within Gentoo and the WOLK kernel looked very appealing.  I hope this 
flush command is simply a Mandrake only issue and is easily corrected.
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:

> Rene Rasmussen wrote:
>
>> If only LG had followed the ATAPI-standard, this never would have
>> happened. How can a company re-use a flusch_cache command to be used
>> to write new firmware to a cdrom drive? The only thing to do, is to
>> stop buying / supporting companies like LG. They'll get the point
>> eventually!
>
>
> Agreed, but if you've already got the hardware, it's good to know 
> before you do a Mandrake 9.2 install.  Although, cdrom drives are so 
> bloody cheap these days...
>

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