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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.

"Jason Chong" <cvw@pc.jaring.my> wrote in message
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> Peter van der Goes wrote:
> >
> > If you are referring to the firmware update for the 8432E offered by
> > Creative, the answer is no. Those updates are only for the drive model
that
> > identifies itself as 8432E in Device Manager.
>
>
> I meant the panasonic/matsushita's firmware for the 8439E..
>
> My 8432 is actually an 8439E which is actually the Matsushita/panasonic
> cw-7586 series. It is second best to the plextor unit they originally
> rebadged. 8433E is actually it's predecessor cw-7585 series.
>
> The other models except the original plextor are actually samsung and
> sanyo etc..
>
> Samsung sw-212 is a good model but no creative drive is based on it
> yet. It has 8 mb internal buffer.