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linux-source-2.6.20 package

  1. Bug #75295
  2. Comment #108

Comment 108 for bug 75295

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gmayer (gunther-mayer) wrote : Re: Feisty freeze, kernel (?) tries to access DVD drive

I just wanted to say that I managed to get rid of lots of weird ata soft resets and other related problems (see bug 104581) thanks to Tom's instructions using two flash drives. I'm on a Samsung Q35 laptop with the notorious TSSTcorp TS-L632D DVD writer (used to be firmware_version SC02, now SC04, downloaded). I have no Windows partition as I completely nuked it a while back, I'm an Ubuntu purist ;-). The FreeDOS's USB drivers work perfectly on my laptop too so that I had no problem accessing once I had booted from the first flash drive.

So I can vouch for Tom's instructions and would consider them as generic as long the reader has the same drive as above and no access to a Windows partition. For those folks still dependent on Windows the above instructions are probably easier.