TEAC DV-W58G - Page 6

- Reading Tests

To create an image of the various protected titles onto a hard disk, we used Alcohol 120% v1.4.8.1222 and the appropriate settings, depending on the protection type of the inserted discs. Below are summarized the capabilities of the TEAC drive, according to CloneCD software. The summary below shows that the drive supports writing of CD+G under RAW DAO:

The game titles we used to test the reading speed for each protection scheme are given in the table below:

PSX Pressed Media

SafeDisc v.2

SecuROM v.2

TEAC was fast ripping all of the pressed game discs we tested. According to the graphs above, the TEAC DV-W58G was consistently fast with all three protection schemes, something which is rare for a drive. It was the fastest reading the safedisc protected disc, and not far the fastest drive (Pioneer DVR-107D) for the other two protection schemes.

- Writing Tests

TEAC supports the DAO-RAW writing mode. For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 3 different game titles with different SafeDisc versions and with the latest software patches installed. After making the image files of the various titles to the hard disk, we burned them (maximum speed) with Alcohol 120%. Two different discs were created for each title; one with the "Bypass EFM error" enabled and one more with the function disabled.

The table below shows the results of the attempted backups and whether they working (game installed / played normally), or not.

The TEAC drive was able to make working backups of all games we tested. The most difficult game was Fifa 2004 which was protected with Safedisc v3.10. In order to test the compatibility of the written media we tested whether the Fifa 2004 backup disc played, on the following devices: