BenQ DW822A 8X Dual - Page 6

- Reading Tests

To create an image of the various protected titles onto a hard disk, we used CloneCD and the appropriate settings, depending on the protection type of the inserted discs. Below are summarized the capabilities of the BenQ 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

The BenQ drive returned fast ripping time with psx original disc along with the Aopen. The average ripping speed of the SafeDisc2 protected game was not the fastest of the comaprison but was still at a very acceptable level since the drive needed 16:48min to complete the task. With the Securom protected game, the BenQ reported the fastest ripping speed at 2148.54 sectors/sec.

- Writing Tests

The BenQ drive supports the DAO-RAW writing mode. For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 3 different game titles with different SafeDisc versions. After making the image files of the various titles to the hard disk, we burnt them (maximum speed) with CloneCd. 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 worked (game installed / played normally), or not.

This has to go down as one of the weak points of the BenQ, its inability to make valid backup copies of protected games. The only game that BenQ managed to backup was the MaxPayne title and the image was valid (working) only when we used the Amplify Weak Sectors option of CloneCD.