Remember. The vendor can report the correct write modes all he wants; but there is also the small matter of correct EFM encoding. That means actually testing the drive to see if the drive can reproduce exotic conditions like weak sectors. That in turn means that somebody needs to have actually tried to produce backup copies of exotic cd's in an attempt to create true 1 to 1 copies.....and then reported their results. Like the results at the CloneCD hardware database, for instance.
For an idea of what true quality drives are capable of and what they are up against, please check out the following: http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20021213/lg-13.html Not having perfect EFM encoding is the same thing as not having the correct raw hardware modes at all. For this info we need somebody's test results. On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 03:25, KevinO wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > charlie wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 10:56 pm, Tom Brinkman had this to contribute :- > > > >> Could a few of y'all with Lite-On's post the results of > >>'cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0' Just the ID/Rev, and the last > >>several lines are relevant. > > Here is the output from a couple of the Yamaha's here. Interesting... > > Cdrecord 1.11a31 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J�rg Schilling > scsidev: '0,2,0' > scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0 > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' > Device type : Removable CD-ROM > Version : 2 > Response Format: 2 > Capabilities : SYNC > Vendor_info : 'YAMAHA ' > Identifikation : 'CRW2100E ' > Revision : '1.0J' > Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). > Driver flags : SWABAUDIO > Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R > > Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J�rg Schilling > scsidev: '0,0,0' > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' > Device type : Removable CD-ROM > Version : 2 > Response Format: 2 > Capabilities : SYNC > Vendor_info : 'YAMAHA ' > Identifikation : 'CRW3200E ' > Revision : '1.0d' > Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). > Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE AUDIOMASTER FORCESPEED > Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R > > - -- > KevinO --LX -- ����������������������������������������������� Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* ������������������������������������������������
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