That's right! It seems that the Mandrake 9.2 install causes LG CDROM drives to stop working! I've not heard of a case like this before. There is some funny discussion on the matter taking place over at Slashdot. It seems that setting these drives up for packet writing causes them to die, in this case it is Mandrake that is initiating the configuration, but it could be other software.
The drives firmware is at fault. The manufacturer will have to replace drives that get killed. Maybe this might spark downloadable malware in future, which when burned to CD and inserted into your PC, it really does destroy your CDROM or other hardware by exploiting other firmware bugs.
Funny & quite interesting at the same time!
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