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Article #197Re: Panasonic/Matsushita supports 8439E in their firmware flasher detection
From: Jason Chong
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:26
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:26
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Ron Love wrote: > > Looks as tho you are quite knowledgeable on the subject! It seems that > someone has stated that the manufacturer of the 8438E might be Samsung. > Would you know, if it is Samsung, what the Samsung model no. might be? > Thanks in advance for any help, > Ron Well from what i read it could be a samsung, but it is also NOT flashable due to a 'sector protection' so any new firmware could not be completely loaded complete. So DO NOT flash this 8438E model or else you will get a dead drive. The EEPROM used from what I read, prevents any tampering with the firmware or else you get a dead drive.
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