If I remember correctly a short while ago Mandrake Linux had some real issues with LG drives didnt it? Cant remember the exact details but they werent pretty :p Lite-On drives are cheap as chips these days (Dunno about -RAM drives thou) and they're pretty reliable :) > I recently purchased 2 LG DVD-RAM dual level drives for the purpose of > installing Novell's SLES and SLED evaluation of SUSE 10.0 Linux. > > No Go! > > When I took the DVDs into the store, they tried them on their boxes (all > running MS XP). None of the machines with LG DVD drives could read > Novell's DVDs. But the Asus and Pioneer drives worked fine. > > Fortunately the shop allowed me to swap the LGs for Asus. > > So beware! Avoid LGs unless you test them in advance! > > John O'Gorman > > > _______________________________________________ > AuckLUG mailing list > AuckLUG at linux.net.nz > http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aucklug >
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