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Thanks Justin, a most comprehensive reply!
        Roy

"Justin Thyme" <bogan@toranas.com> wrote in message
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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" wrote in message
> > 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 ?
> >   Cheers
> >       Roy Cornish
> >
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