🚀 go-pugleaf

I guess the first question is: Which of the *five* different drives sold by
CL as the 8432 do you have? Win Device manager will tell you. Is it 8432E,
8433E, 8435E, 8438E or 8439E?
I am the unlucky owner of an 8438E, and I am able to use EZCD 4.05 with the
drive. Why it won't work in EZCD 5 (as reported here by other owners) is a
mystery. The proliferation of drive models makes things very difficult for
the software makers, as each drive ID string must be added to the software.
Creative makes things even worse by actually placing *different* ID strings
in the drive firmware within a model designation.
(Soapbox mode on)
Sigh!
If only Creative would leave the OEM firmware intact in the drives they
rebadge (i.e. *not* change the ID strings), the software folk would have
that many fewer drive ID's to deal with and we customers could use the OEM
firmware updates that Creative *refuses* to provide.
(Soapbox mode off)

"CyberJ" <cyberj@telocity.com> wrote in message
news:9k2kus$96r$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> Is anyone having compatability problems with Easy Creator? Even though it
is
> on their list of supported drives, I still get a message saying it isn't
> supported when I envoke Direct Cd. I installed the patch also. I have the
CL
> 8432 CDRW drive.
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