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bangbang023, **** off. learn to use ignore feature

why don't you stop chasing me around the forum and posting retarded comments.

listen buddy boy, I can't help if I read most of the forums and you happen to post in all them too. All I do know is that I will not stand by and watch you post comments like you did above. It adds nothing to the forum and shows a lack of maturity, on any level.

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LG prolly implemented absolute minimum for their cheapass drives to work on Windows since it's most common and did not even bother to test on other OS, or maybe they tested, and even saw this problem but didn't not bother to fix it since it could cost them more money

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Im still trying to figure out installing a peice of software can fudge up a peice of hardware thats just mind bogling. If anyone finds out how thats happening I wanna know too weird :alien: Anyway I love Linux Mandrake im sure they will have a patch or something soon :)

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A LG drive of mine worked perfectly fine with the Mandrake 9.0 final. From installation to burning, etc. That's a pity that LG doesn't officially support Linux though; it makes other people outside the organization providing the Linux support jobs more difficult.

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funny that....my dad's got 2 lg drives, on a cd-rw one a cd-rom...they both work fine with his mandrake 9.1...

And then 9.2 fudges them up! I wonder what kind of changes would cause this.

Mind-boggling eh? :p

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I have Mandrake 9.2 RC2 installed my drives work perfectly, one is a poineer dvd rom, the other is a LG CDRW drive, i was just using it in linux to install rpm's off the third cd, and rite now i'm in windows and I just burned a cd-r ... I haven't installed the update (9.2 Full or wtvr its called), so up to RC2 its fine!

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  • 2 months later...

weird, I got an LG DVD+/-RW/RAM drive and a LG 52X CD-RW and I installed mandrake 9.2 no problems at all, it didn't fry the drives to my knowledge, they just read a bunch of CDs I threw at them and the DVD+/-RW is functioning top-knotch... (even if they did Futureshop has that warrantry plan, so a new drive would be on its way ;) )

...But then again they're really HL-DT-ST drives made by hitatchi (GSA-4040B & GCE-8520B)

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no. it seriously will cause damage, the MDK forums are going crazy. DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT INSTALL IT IF U HAVE A LG CDROM.

MDK has no explanation of why this is happening...so just wait till there is a solution.

btw: LG CDroms are said to NOT be supported AT ALL by linux.

helps to do ur homewerk.

Drives needs to be supported by the BIOS not by the os itself since it's the same driver for all drives (one for cdroms, one for dvdroms, but still the same for LG and by example hum Sony) except if drive manfacturer provides additional drivers, under windows it's the same DLL, under linux it's something else and under mac os x it's possibly something else (since it's based off unix, it can be the same thing, too). LG said that they do not support Linux, well, they must face the truth that there are ppl using linux on earth and supporting linux is NOT a choice. In fact I dont technically see how a software could kill a drive, especially if it kills it even in a networked install (which does not use the drive) maybe Mandrake tries to use a read mode (by exemple MCC (correct me if wrong)) and the drive badly reacts to this command. I know it wont be MCC since it's supported by most drives but I'm sure that if you go into a program which allows you to choose the read mode (ex. EAC www.exactaudiocopy.de) and you try every mode, one of them will kill your LG drive. If it aint that I really dont see how it could kill the drive.

Just stop purchasing LG cdroms! Mandrake has been known to kill some LG drives so possibly other things!!! Even under Windows!

Mat

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Dell/LG: What kind of dumbass sells/makes a cdrom drive that isn't ATAPI compliant in this day and age? You know there is something wrong when eMachines has better hardware then you :rolleyes:

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Dell/LG: What kind of dumbass sells/makes a cdrom drive that isn't ATAPI compliant in this day and age? You know there is something wrong when eMachines has better hardware then yo:rolleyes:s:

:rofl:l: so true..:ninja:a:

pseudo: check the first page, this thread is from octobe:sleep:p:

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Is this the problem people are talking about? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3

See it says here:

Update Nov, 14th 2003: LG has released some firmware updates to various model numbers (they are noted specifically in the list), and a restoration procedure for previously affected drives. All users are encouraged to upgrade the firmware on their CD-ROM systems prior to installing or upgrading Mandrake Linux 9.2. They also provide a recovery procedure for the damaged drives.

There is a patch to use before installing and one to fix damaged drives.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83579&...ort=0&op=Change

From the /. thread Mandrake seems to have: 1) Used bad code calling a command they shouldn't have and 2) used an experimental kernel on production release :no: :no: . At least this is how I understand it.

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