Lite-On SOHW-812s - Page 6

- Reading Tests

To create an image of the various protected titles onto a hard disk, we used Clone CD and the appropriate settings, depending on the protection type of the inserted discs. Below are summarized the capabilities of the LiteOn 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 LiteOn proved to be faster than the Teac drive for ripping protected games. The drive reported a faster average ripping speed with all games. CloneCd reported that the DVD writer finished the Safedisc ripping process with an average speed of 6.03x while for the PSX game the overall time of the process was only 3:30min and that value is about half of Teac's.

- Writing Tests

The LiteOn 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 CloneCd. Two different discs were created for each title; one with the "Amplify Weak Sectors " 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 LiteOn SOHW-821S managed to make 100% working backups only with the SD v2.6. With v2.8-2.9,the backups were partially working but in specific drives although not in the LiteOn drive itself. This is strange since LiteOn has a good reputation with game protection schemes. Maybe with a firmware upgrade this will solve the problem.