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October 24th, 2003 - Important notice! - Several users have reported a big issue with LG Cd-rom drives used with Mandrake Linux 9.2: these CD-rom drives are not compliant with ATAPI specification and therefore can be damaged. All details, future updates and possible fix related to this issue are available at this page. Other Cd-rom drives are not affected by this issue. Update - Nov 20th, 2003: LG has released firmware updates to various CD-Rom drives models, as well as a restoration procedure for frozen drives. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 http://us.lgservice.com/