Cactus Data Shield 200
9. Tests
Cactus Data Shield 200 - Page 9
- Tests with PC drives
We tested many drives with the CDS200 pressed disc under WinXP. We used CDDAE v0.3beta and Feurio v1.64. With the CDDAE we tried to rip the contents of the disc at HD. In most cases we failed since the ripping software (CDDAE) doesn't contain any specials routines for Audio protected CDs. On the other hand, Feurio 1.64 can handle, in some cases, protected Audio CDs. With some drives we could playback the disc and rip the disc contents with some others didn't. Note that we didn't tested alternative CDFS.VXD cause works only under Win9X systems.
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Drive
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CDDAE
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Feurio v1.64
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PleXWriter PX-W2410A v1.03
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Recognizes only the first 8 tracks as
Audio Tracks. Cannot rip the first track.
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All tracks are shown correctly, however
the drive has many problems ripping/playback the whole disc
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LiteOn LTR-24102B v5S54
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Recognizes the 12 Audio tracks, however
cannot rip/playback disc
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All Audio tracks are shown correctly,
however the drive cannot rip/playback tracks
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TEAC CD-W524E v1.0A
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Doesn't recognize any Audio Track!
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Doesn't recognize any Audio Track!
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Yamaha CRW3200E v1.0b
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Recognizes the 12 Audio tracks, however
cannot rip/playback disc
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All Audio tracks are shown correctly,
however the drive cannot rip/playback tracks
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ASUS CDS2410A v6.36
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Recognizes the 12 Audio tracks, however
cannot rip/playback disc, PC halts
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All Audio tracks are shown correctly,
however the drive cannot rip/playback tracks
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Sony CRX175A v1.0h
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Recognizes the 12 Audio tracks, however
cannot rip/playback disc, PC halts
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Can playback all tracks, however sound
skips during the playback process at some points
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AOpen CRW2440 v2.02
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Recognizes the 12 Audio tracks, can rip
till 91%
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Plextor PX-40TS v1.13
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Recognizes only 8 Audio Tracks, cannot
rip them
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Can playback all tracks with some problems
when you try moving back and fordward inside the track
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TEAC CD-W280PU v1.1A
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Recognizes only the first 6 tracks as
Audio Tracks. Cannot rip the first track.
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All tracks are shown correctly, however
the drive can only play 1-5 tracks, cannmot playback 6-12
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PleXWriter PX-S88TU v1.05
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Recognizes only the first 6 tracks as
Audio Tracks. Cannot rip the first track.
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Can playback 1-7 tracks not 8-12
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LiteOn LTR-32123S vXS07
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Recognizes the 12 Audio tracks, however
cannot rip/playback disc, drive halts
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Recognizes the 12 AudioTracks, however
Feurio halts!!
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Mitsumi CR-480A vP1.05
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Sees all tracks as Data tracks
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Sees all tracks as Data tracks, Feurio
re-tries to recognize Audio Tracks, no success
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The winner with CDS200 protection is the AOpen CRW2440. The drive has no problem read the disc contents, rip them (up to 91% with CDDAE, up to 100% with EAC) and give you a safe backup. All other 24x recorders (Plextor, LiteOn, Yamaha, TEAC) will fail in re-producing a backup disc. The problem here is the reading not the writing part...Perhaps with newer firmware updates, reading compatibility will be improved.
- Testing with standalone players
We tested the CDS200 title with 3 stand alone CD players:
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Drive
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Original
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Backup
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Denon DCD-950 (stand alone)
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No problems
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Cannot recognize disc
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JVC XL-P31 (portable)
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No problems
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No problems
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AIWA LCX-257 (midi system)
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No problems
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No problems
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The original CDS200 title didn't showed any problems during playback with our tested CD players. The CDS200 backup, produced with CloneCD, didn't recognized from the Denon DCD-950 CD player (we have confirmed it can read CD-R media), which is at least worrying. Users should make a new disc with the 12 tracks in order have maximum compatibilty of their backups.
