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I've personally seen 3 different makes of drive that have been rebadged as
"creative 8432" drives. Panasonic made one, not too sure about the other
brands - Samsung and Teac i think.  Panasonic and Teac drives are normally
pretty good (HP drives were rebadged Teacs). but for some magical reason as
soon as a drive is rebadged as creative they seem to turn into buckets of
pus. I suspect that the real problem is the firmware - creative rewrite it
and make their own custom firmware -  rather than the actual drive itself.
While I haven't actually tried this, you might get good results by
reflashing with a firmware from the original manufacturer - it might fix
your problems, it might screw the drive totally.
Personally, if buying a new drive, I'd look at a liteon or an LG. I'd steer
clear of Benq (mitsubishi drives are also Benq, just rebadged) -simply
because they seem to have a higher than normal failure rate -  however
getting a warranty replacement doesn't seem to be a problem, and while the
drives are working, they work great.

"Roy" <roycor2@absamail.co.za> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>      I have read that Creative Labs CDRW 8432 was manufactured by another
> company and is also sold under the name of that company.   My Creative
labs CD
> has never worked reliably and I could get no satisfaction from all the
> complaints I have made to Creative Labs.   Can anyone tell me the name of
the
> other company that manufactured this CDRW ?
>     I am planning to buy a new drive and I do not want to risk the chance
of
> buying the same dud make again!
> Please help if you can.
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>   Cheers
>       Roy Cornish
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