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LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2

Posted by michael on from the whoopsie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The latest offering of Mandrake's distribution, 9.2, has been found to not only be incompatible with some LG CD-ROM drives, but to destroy them during the installation process. Mandrake have posted information on their errata page and further information can be found on this thread [google]. Along with over 350Mb of updates within a week of release, it's not been a good start for this latest release."

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  1. Quick... by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone find a 1st level Cleric so they can cast Protection from Evil on these Lawful Good CD-ROMs. That should keep the evil Mandrakes from destroying them.

    At least they should get a freakin' saving throw. What a harsh DM.

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    1. Re:Quick... by daeley · · Score: 3, Funny

      So do they wind up getting XP if they fail the saving throw? ;)

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    2. Re:Quick... by tonywong · · Score: 5, Funny

      The sad part is I actually understood that joke and worse yet I found it funny.

      Back to the basement with my pizza stained shirt from 1985.

  2. Re:If you're a hardware manufacturer... by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, if you're a software manufacturer and can actually write software that destroys perfectly normal hardware you have a pretty sweet employment deal waiting for you at the RIAA.

    KFG

  3. Re:Well... by dknj · · Score: 3, Funny

    hahaha reminds me of a time i put a severely scratched cd inside a 16x drive only to have it shake the case violently. so i hit the eject button and the cd rose straight up out of the drive tray, flew at my coworker and then veered off to the floor. I didn't leave it in long enough for any marks, but it was warm to the touch. ahh fun times with broken hardware

    -dk

  4. Re:Well... by Black+Art · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

    I guess LG had a different idea what "flush drive" meant.

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  5. The ''Drive-killing disc'' by 0x20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somehow this reminds me of Hofstadter's illustration of Godel's incompleteness theorem in Godel, Escher, Bach... wherein Achilles has a phonograph which he claims can reproduce any sound, so the tortoise gives him a record with a sound which destroys phonographs...




    Well, it was funny to me.


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