Pioneer DVD±RW DVR-107D - 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 Pioneer drive, according to CloneCD software. Notice 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

The Pioneer drive managed to make images of all tested games. The drive was fast with the PSX and SecuRom images, completing the task with an average speed of 15.65x and 29.96x respectively. With the Safedisc2 protected game disc the drive decreased reading speed to 2.35x

- Writing Tests

The Pioneer DVR-107D supports the DAO-RAW writing mode. For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 3 different game titles with different SafeDisc 2 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 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 ran (game installed / played normally), or not.

The drive is not the best recorder for creating backups of SafeDisc protected discs. Protection builds higher than v2.51 could not be handled.

*Both backups of SafeDisc v2.60.x and v2.8 discs worked in the same Pioneer DVR-107D ONLY.