On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 8:54 pm, IanBell wrote:
On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 5:12 pm, Syd Hancock wrote:
This is a question I've been meaning to ask for a while. When I first got my T23 Think[ad a couple of months ago I tried a Suse 8.1 Live Evaluation disk in it and what happened when it went past the opening screen was really scary.
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It doesn't, by any chance, have an LG CDRW drive does it?? I have heard of problems with this drive and distros which have packet writing enabled (like Suse 8.1 and Mandrake 9.2 but not Mandrake 9.1).
No I don't think it's the CDrom - it's an IBM drive (may be badged I suppose). The current problem with the LG drive and mdk9.2 is because the drive firmware uses a command which is intended to flush the buffers to flash the rom instead... hence dead CD drives while trying to instal mdk9.2 - nasty. LG's response is that their drives 'don't support linux'. Hmm.
These LG drives are used in the Dell Optiplex BTW if anyone out there needs to know.
I have a couple of them, they are a very nice machine, solidly made and an easy install (with mandrake 9.1 and knoppix at least) so I will not be using mdk 9.2 (which so far does not look as if it is going to be one of Mandrake's better distros unfortunately - many bugs have appeared within days of release. mdk9.1 is pretty solid though).
Syd