TEAC DW-548D COMBO DRIVE - Page 6

- Reading Tests

To create an image of the various protected titles onto a hard disk, we used CloneCD v.4.3.1.9 software 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 for each protection scheme are given in the table below:

PSX Pressed Media

SafeDisc v.2

SecuROM v.2

Teac managed to rip the contents of all game titles tested. It gave acceptable ripping performance with PSX ripping and SecuRom protected games. However it was not to slow with SafeDisc. It displayed similar performance, reporting almost the same times as the other drives.

- Writing Tests

TEAC DW-548D supports the DAO-RAW writing mode. For checking the drive's Bypass EFM Error correction status, we used 3 different game titles with two different SafeDisc versions with the latest software patches installed. After making the images 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 ran (game installed / played normally), or not.