LG CD-Rom drives and Fedora

[Bill Nottingham]

Daniel Robitaille (fedora at robitaille.fastmail.fm) said: 
> After reading about the recent problems of Mandrake and LG CD-Rom drives
> (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3), I was wondering if
> anyone knows if Fedora was/is/could be affected by the same problem?
> Or the problem is something specific to things Mandrake add to the
> kernel?

Yes, it's a specific patch that Mandrake added to their kernel that
triggered the hardware issue; that patch is not included in Fedora.

Bill