LiteOn combo SOHC 5232K - Page 6

- Reading Tests

To create an image of the various protected titles onto a hard disk, we used Alcohol 120% v.1.4.8.1222 software 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 for testing the readin gspeed for each protection scheme are given in the table below:

PSX Pressed Media

SafeDisc v.2

SecuROM v.2

Although the drive gave good results ripping the SafeDisk and SecuROM protection schemes, the PSX ripping was very slow.

- Writing Tests

The LiteOn SOHC-5232K supports the DAO-RAW writing mode. For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 3 different game titles with different SafeDisc 2 and 3 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. 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.