Fedora and LG CD-RW Drives

[Walt Frampus]

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 10:08, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It seems that the drives are being killed by a packet writing patch
> > that was introduced into the Mandrake kernel on August 15th.
> 
> Specifically if you send a flush cache command to the specific LG drives
> or their compaq rebadged ones they become factory returns. Scary stuff
> indeed.
> 
> 

Actually is is just the cheap cd-roms that are affected, not the cd r/rw

"Mandrake 9.2
Because of hardware problems with the kernel used by MDK 9.2, certain
cheap ($19.99 USD) LG CDROMS, not CDRWs will be fried if used. This has
been documented on the mandrake-newbie list, Subject: "CDROM fails on
detection" and have been blacklisted by kernel.org."