Best Reader for SafeDisc 3?

Cantab 2005-01-12 16:40:41 UTC #1

Hi,
Quick question - I'm trying to make a copy of Doom 3 (SD 3.20) with Alcohol 120%, and was wondering which of my two drives - Plextor 716A (DVD writer) or Asus 5232AS to use for reading. For writing it's best to use the Asus (the Plextor won't work) but how about for reading?

Thanks!

philamber 2005-01-12 20:38:41 UTC #2

By reading, do you mean for making the image or for playing the back-up copy?

Namoh 2005-01-12 23:12:27 UTC #3

I think he means for making the image.

I would say, the ASUS.

Cantab 2005-01-13 02:26:50 UTC #4

Yes, I meant for making the image, sorry. I would have thought the Plextor is the drive to use for playing the backup, the Asus won't read its own copies.

philamber 2005-01-13 04:43:25 UTC #5

Yep, read with the Asus, play with the Plex (unless, of course, you've got a Litey dvd that you haven't mentioned ).

bcn_246 2005-01-13 12:07:31 UTC #6

Read image with Lite-On/ASUS, then burn and play with PlexWriter Premium.

Ben

philamber 2005-01-13 13:08:13 UTC #7

Cantab doesn't have a plex premium Ben; he has a plex dvd writer. Look at his first post.

merther02 2005-01-14 08:45:27 UTC #8

Just play from the dvd unit then.

Cantab 2005-01-18 21:12:17 UTC #9

Thanks for the replies guys. For some reason my Asus won't write working copies of SafeDisc games. When I wrote the image with my old Toshiba DVD burner, it worked just fine.
So I think that, currently, the combination of a Plextor Premium (can burn SecuROM 4/5) and a Toshiba/LiteOn DVD writer (for everything else) would be the perfect 2-drive combination. Do you agree?

m119 2005-01-19 01:17:01 UTC #10

I think the best combination is....

Securom >4.80 Plextor Premium :iagree:
Safedisc 3 and 4 Plextor 8/20 SCSI :iagree:

VirusHack 2005-01-19 06:25:39 UTC #11

My litty can write and read both SR 5.x and SD 4.x. Only bad thing is that I need to hide ATIP.

\\VH////

_CyBeRwIz 2005-01-19 15:52:02 UTC #12

shouldn't be a problem with new SecuROM versions:)

Cantab 2005-01-20 19:07:42 UTC #13

Really? What method do you use for SR 5 and do you know if the newer Liteys also can do this?

Namoh 2005-01-20 23:55:27 UTC #14

I think it's a hit and mis with the new drives.