🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm very happy for you that Panasonic has chosen to support the Creative
models they made.
I suggest that you post a new message (new thread) here so that others can
see what you've found.
Good luck with it.

"Jason Chong" <cvw@pc.jaring.my> wrote in message
news:3B7D05B8.4DA5@pc.jaring.my...
> Peter van der Goes wrote:
> >
> > That won't work either, because the flash program from Pavasonic will
look
> > for a cw-7586 on your system to flash and won't find it because Creative
> > changed the ID string in your drive firmware to 8439E or whatever.
> > So, you can't flash with the OEM update and Creative won't give you one.
>
> Guess what ? I dissected the firmware upgrade flasher for cw-7586 1.01
> and 1.08 .
>
> Creative-CDRW IS recognized by the flasher and WILL update the firmware
> on 8439E and 8433E, it looks to me like, the 'official' support for
> 8433E and 8439E are the firmwares from www.acscompro.com
>
> If not, why would they be able to detect creative's ID string ?
> Seems to me , THIS could be the official firmware/flasher since
> it detects 8439E and 8433E's ID string.
>
> This is what it looks for...
>
>
> Win32 Flasher LD7586.EXE :
>
>
>  
4B $4B �QB         P�@ _+@ __@ �MA -;A         +MA         _;A
> MATSHITACD
> -RW  CW-7585P MATSHITACD-RW  CW-7585  COMPAQ  CD-RW  CW-7585
> CREATIVECD-RW  RW
> 8433E  DATAEND                 MATSHITACD-RW  CW-7586P MATSHITACD-RW
> CW-7586
> CREATIVECD-RW  RW8439E  DATAEND                 MATSHITACD-RW  CW-7121P
> MATSHIT
> ACD-RW  CW-7121  DATAEND                 MKE ATAPI CD-RW DOWN LOAD
> UTILITY   Ve
> rsion 1.02  Copyright (C)  2000. 09.26    MATSUSHITA-KOTOBUKI
> ELECTORONICS IND.
>  CO., LTD  Information Equipment Development Center    LD7585  LD7586
> LD7121
> LD7XXX  FILE_DOWNLD Version 1.02  Copyright (C)  2000. 09.26    %s(
> %13.13s)
>  This Program No run %-8.8s %-16.16s %-4.4s  MKE CD-R(W) DRIVE CW-%4.4s
> NotFoun
> d Drive No Goood Selectd
> %16.16s  MKE CD-RW DOWNLOAD   Firm Ware Files (*.Rom)
> | *.Rom; | Binary Files (*.Bin) | *.bin; | All Files (*.*) | *.*; ||
> *.ROM
> ROM DOWN LOAD FILE OPEN MKE CD-RW DOWNLOAD  File not found  MKE CD-RW
> DOWNLOAD
>
>
>
>
> DOS flasher D7586.EXE:
>
>                                                              MS Run-Time
> Librar
> y - Copyright (c) 1990, Microsoft Corp  OK
>                 END              MATSHITACD-RW  CW-7585 COMPAQ  CD-RW
> CW-7585
> CREATIVECD-RW  RW8433E DATAEND                MATSHITACD-RW  CW-7586
> CREATIVECD
> -RW  RW8439E DATAEND                 MATSHITACD-RW  CW-7121 DATAEND
>     B b
> H b
> N b
> T b
> Z b
> ` b
> f b
> l b
> r b
> x b
> ~ b
> � b
> 1.02(2000/09/26) %s version
>  %s
>  %s [/d DriveNumber] [RomFile][/y]
>
>  DriveNumber 0 : Primary Master
>
>       1 : Primary Slave
>              2 : Secondary Master
>              3 : Seco
> ndary Slave
>  Filename =  Select Drive
>    0 : Primary Master
>    1 : Primary Slav
> e
>    2 : Secondary Master
>    3 : Secondary Slave
>    Q : Quit
>  Input Drive Numbe
> r =   Heep Space Can not Allocate
>  CW-7586P Drive Not Ready
>
> Data =
>  .
> CDB
>  = %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X   OK
>                               END              MATSHITACD-RW  CW-7585
> COMPAQ  C
> D-RW  CW-7585 CREATIVECD-RW  RW8433E DATAEND
> MATSHITACD-RW  CW-7
> 586 CREATIVECD-RW  RW8439E DATAEND                 MATSHITACD-RW
> CW-7121 DATAE