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[ploder]

Trying to backup my games with Alcohol and am a little confused on whether my Yamaha CD burner is capable. I do know that it is incapable of RAW DAO, but as you can see below it supports normal DAO, RAW SAO, RAW SAO+SUB, TAO. So my question is whether the write methods available to me are capable of duplicating images to CDR so they can be run on my modded PS1 and which is best?

Here is a system info report:
{System Report removed after review - Jito463}

Edited by Jito463, 03 January 2009 - 06:48 PM.

[Jito463]

Best way would just be to choose the Playstation profile and burn at a slow speed.

[ploder]

Thanks for replying. Not many people seem to be able to answer my questions.

When I select the Playstation profile the write method automatically switches to RAW SAO+SUB. Will this produce similar results to RAW DAO as long as the disc is closed and what if the image format does not contain subchannel information in a separate file? I can foresee problems here in that if the image format is like bin/cue this method might burn coasters?

So is it better to burn bin/cue (ie formats not including subchannel data) using RAW SAO method and all formats including subchannel data (e.g .ccd + .sub + .img) with RAW SAO+SUB?

Edited by ploder, 04 January 2009 - 08:30 AM.

[Charalambos]

Playstation disks have subchannel data so you need the RAW SAO+SUB method. On the other hand your cue/bin images are probably useless since they don't contain the subchannel data.

[ploder]

Playstation disks have subchannel data so you need the RAW SAO+SUB method. On the other hand your cue/bin images are probably useless since they don't contain the subchannel data.

I tried backing up my Breath of Fire .ccd, .img & .sub and got "Focus Servo Failure" and the disc is now a coaster. Why did this happen?

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####################### Dumping/Recording Progress Log #######################
********* Time stamp of this log file:  04/01/2009 16:27:47 *********
16:27:47 Processor info: Pentium II (0.25 um) x 2 (451MHz)
16:27:47 Memory Available to Windows: 523,824 KB
16:27:47 Memory Buffer size: 204 MB
Recording Options: Use Overburning technology
16:27:48 Image file loading: C:\Documents and Settings\***\Desktop\Breath of Fire III\Breath.Of.Fire.3.ccd
16:27:48 Source Info:  Session: 1, Track: 2, Length: 398.8 MB / 045:22:33
16:28:07 (F:) YAMAHA CRW4416S(2:4): Recording Method/Speed
16:28:08 Recording - RAW SAO + SUB - 2X (300 KB/Sec)
16:35:03 (F:) YAMAHA CRW4416S(2:4) - [Write ERROR], LBA: 47344, Length: 16
    S:KEY - 04/09/02  - "Focus Servo Failure"
16:35:03 (F:) YAMAHA CRW4416S(2:4): Recording failed!
16:35:03 Error message:  [04/09/02] - Focus Servo Failure
16:35:03 (F:) YAMAHA CRW4416S(2:4): Recording failed!
16:35:03 Image file loading aborted!
16:36:17 Something is wrong with the recording procedure! Please check the log file and report any errors to Technical Support.
##############################################################################

[Charalambos]

Maybe your disk is dirty or have any scratches? As for the particular error message please wait to be read by somebody who knows more.

[ptolomeus3]

S:KEY - 04/09/02 - "Focus Servo Failure"

This error message could mean that something may be wrong with your drive!

[zamiel]

You could also try remaking the image off the original disc using Alcohol's native MDF/S format and not the Clone CD format.

[ploder]

This error message could mean that something may be wrong with your drive!

Perhaps you are right. After a bit of research I found that Focus servo error caused by:

1. Bad disc media (unlikely since I have tried two different types of CDR)
2. Dirty lens head (unlikely since I used a CD cleaner disc)
3. Power fluctuations (I don't have a clue about this)
4. Crapped out burner (perhaps as it is 7+ years old. But then again it reads discs fine)

Edited by ploder, 05 January 2009 - 05:41 AM.

[Charalambos]

Well, reading and burning are two different functions. Try to burn another image and/or to burn something with another program e.g. Nero. Try also to burn the image with another drive. However the odds are that your burner doesn't properly function anymore.