PIONEER DVR-S706 DVD±R/RW recorder - Page 8

- Reading Tests

To create an image of various protected titles onto a hard disk we used Alcohol v.1.9.2.1705 software and the appropriate settings depending on the protection type of the inserted discs. Below, the capabilities of the Pioneer drive are summarized according to CloneCD software. As can be seen 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 DVR-S706 managed to rip the contents of all test discs successfully without major differences compared to the DVR-107D, except with SecuROM where it was slower.

- Writing Tests

The DVR-S706 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 having the latest software patches installed. After making the images of the various titles onto the hard disk, we burned them (maximum speed) with Alcohol 120% v1.9.2.1705. Two different discs were created for each title; one with the "Bypass EFM error" enabled and one more with the function disabled.

• Fifa 2004 - Safe Disc v3.1
• The Sims Superstar - Safe Disc v2.9
• The Sims Unleashed - Safe Disc v2.8
• Serious Sam Second Encounter v1.07 - Safe Disc v2.60.052
• Max Payne - Safe Disc v2.51.020

The table below shows the results of the attempted backups and whether they worked (game installed / played normally), or not.

The drive didn`t managed to make working backups of all the game titles we tried. SafeDisc v2.8 and v2.6 discs wre backed up, but the burned CD was usable only on the same drive. Only with SafeDisc v2.51 was the burned CD operational with other drives.