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- History

WSES (Write Strategy Evaluation System) comes directly from LiteOn labs.

- Propose

WSES that can be used to perform various tasks such as:

1) Performance tests (trasnfer rate, seek/access times),
2) Writing quality tests (C1/C2, ATER measurement, BETA, RF/GAMMA)
3) Getting Information about insert disc/drive status

- Supported drives

All LiteOn recorders and readers. Drives based upon MediaTek chipsets may work also, look in the hardware section for such compatibility. The software's writing quality tests will work only with LiteOn CD-RW recorders while the "exercise -> read c1/c2 count" will only work with the LiteOn CD/DVD readers.

- Installation

The WSES software works only under plain DOS, forget DOS windows under Win2k/WinXP, and only under FAT32 partitions. It is advised to use Win98SE boot disc and during the boot up process don't load any DOS drivers.You should have already unzipped the contents of the zip file into a folder (/WSES/). Inside that folder there are two files:

a) st.exe that will be used to take screenshots of the various test results
b) wses.exe that is the main test software

The st (screen thief) software can be used as: C:\wses\st.exe. Pictures can be taken by pressing CTRLl+ALT+T. The names of the saved pictures are in sequence (wses01, wses02,etc..). The default output format is .BMP. In case you wish you can store pictures in .PCX or .TIFF format with the following command: C:\wses\st. /output:pcx (or /output:tiff)