The Mandrake site makes the claim ...
"These drives are not compatable with Linux"
They mean "These drives are not compatible with the IDE and ATAPI standards".
Can anyone clarify, if the drives are not compatable with linux, or just with Mandrake Linux ........
Mandrake has released a production OS with a prerelease kernel. The problem is for packet-writing added to the 2.4.22-rc2q5 kernel on Aug 15. A flush command which happens while deciding whether a drive is a CD writer or not has been redefined by LG to mean "upload firmware" (with predictable results). Juan Quintela from the Mandrake Cooker list: "Yep, whoeved decided at LG that reusing for UPLOAD_FIRMWARE command FLUSH_CACHE comand should be shoot.
In short, how serious is this issue for The lug,, None of my drives are LG, so I cannot offer anything other than questions at this time.
Very little, as the LUG doesn't really "support" Mandrake, and I don't think anyone over here got the ISO's before people heard about the error. CDRW's will read the disc fine. Craig