[AuckLUG] Re: LG Cautionary Tale

[Michal Ludvig]

Guy K. Kloss wrote:
> On Thursday 21 September 2006 00:07, Chilling_Silence wrote:
>> Cant remember the exact details but they werent pretty :p
> 
> Was something about an undocumented feature to detect whether a is's a CD or 
> CD-R drive that was frequently used. LG decided to use it otherwise and do 
> nasty stuff. Forgot what it was exactly, though.

http://www.linuxhelp.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3206

<quote>
What would happen is when the kernel would send the FLUSH_CACHE command
to the cdrom, which would normally do what it says, the LG CDroms would
interpret it as "dump the firmware" which basically just over-written
itself making the drive in-opperative.
</quote>

Michal