🚀 go-pugleaf

Check the labels on the drive itself. If you find one that has SEC on it,
and "made in Korea", it's a Samsung. Failing that, get the FCC number off
the FCC label and look up the number on the Federal Communications
Commission web site.
Having said that, you'll discover that the information will do you no good.
Even if the OEM has a firmware upgrade available, you can't use it because
Creative altered the ID string in your drive to say "Creative 8435E" or
whatever in place of the OEM string needed to have the drive recognized by
the OEM flash update program.
Creative has not, and refuses to address, providing firmware updates to
those of us who bought any of the lesser drives they sold in the same boxes
after the initial run of Plextors.
Basically, you're SOL.

"Richard Read" <raread@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:9jl65p$acp$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> Does anyone know who made this drive ?  Iwant to know if any firmware
> updates have been made available yet?
> I am pissed that this drive does not support CD-TEXT
> and Overburn recording .  The only nice fact of Creatives
> packaging was that I received Nero 5.0 rather than 4.0.
> ....Please help anyone....
>
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