I haven't seen any reports on the Lite-On 8325 but here's a link to a "sheep" test to verify your drive's EFM capability: http://www.petemoore.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/guides/pc-cdrom/sheeptest.htm
bsmall, I just purchased a lite-on 1633s external. After reading your thread I figured I'd burn TR-AOD and see how it worked. I used alcohol 120 with the securom new 4.x 5.x profile enabled under the image wizard. When I mount it to a virtual drive, voila! I have Game. So I just used 120's image burning wizard to burn it to a TDK cd-r music disc (the only one I had) with rmps checked. And now I have a working backup of Angel of Darkness. Thought I might try burning one w/o the rmps checked and now I have 2 working backups.
hey ive read a few posts about these protected cds and i have 2 questions: is my burner efm capable? (lg gsa-4260b) or is there a list and can any drive read them ie the built in one on my laptop?
I don't see your LG on any of the lists but that doesn't automatically mean your drive isn't EFM capable because all the lists I know of are quite old. You can run a sheep test on your drive using the utility found at this link: http://www.petemoore.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/guides/pc-cdrom/sheeptest.htm I don't quite follow your second question but if you're asking if most any drive can read a protected disc for an image then the answer is, in most cases, yes but keep in mind that some drives are better at it than others.
