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DuplexSecure's official announcement forum post.

(Users of Daemon Tools are also affected by this.)

DuplexSecure released a beta version of SPTD that fixes issues with audio ripping and burning in various apps:




(Edit: links)

I wonder if this fixes the FUA issue I've read about with EAC and dbpoweramp?

Just installed the 1.45 Beta, FUA still doesn't work with Plextools/EAC/dMC

There's a new beta out now here. I'm going to test it tonight with EAC and my PX-760 and see if the FUA issue has been fixed or not.

Hopefully iTunes ripping from images with Daemon Tools will finally work with Vista using the new 1.47 Beta ...

My test with the new SPTD v1.47 beta:

Test drive: PX-760A with the latest firmware revision
Software: Exact Audio Copy V0.95 beta 4

Other interesting things of some interest:
Use of SCSI interface: Installed external ASPI interface (Adaptec's ASPI v4.60)
Drive read command: Read command D8 (found with 'auto detect read command')
Allow speed reduction during extraction: Checked

Without SPTD installed:

EAC without -usefua

Test 1:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Unchecked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Unchecked
Results:
Track ripped with NO reported errors (even though there are)

Test 2:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Checked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Unchecked
Results:
Read error then sync error, then canceled as it was going at .3x.

Test 3:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Checked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Checked
Results:
Read/sync then canceled

Test 4:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Unchecked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Checked
Results:
Sync error no read error

EAC with -usefua

Test 1:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Unchecked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Unchecked
Results:
Read error then sync error. Canceled due to slowness.

Test 2:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Checked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Unchecked
Results:
Read error then sync error. Canceled due to slowness.

Test 3:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Checked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Checked
Results:
Read/sync then canceled

Test 4:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Unchecked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Checked
Results:
Read and sync error reported.

Conclusion thus far:
Well, it seems like Plextor's PX-760A does support -usefua with Exact Audio Copy (afterthought: this may not be new news, lol). This is rather good news, especially for people that would decide to use Test 4's settings as the test started out at 17x.
Now to continue on. We know how the PX-760 acts without the -usefua switch so I'm not going to repeat those tests with SPTD installed (though I will upon request) so I'm going to jump right into the with -usefua switch

With SPTD installed

EAC with -usefua

Test 1:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Unchecked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Unchecked
Results:
Sync error reported. Doesn't look good.

Test 2:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Checked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Unchecked
Results:
Read error then sync error. Canceled due to slowness. Nothing new

Test 3:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Checked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Checked
Results:
Same as Test 2

Test 4:
Drive settings:
Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked
Drive caches audio data: Unchecked
Drive is capable of C2 data: Checked
Results:
Sync error reported

Conclusion:
Well, it seems that the newest beta still breaks EAC's -usefua command. I'm going to post this test in the forum, maybe they can do something to address this issue. I'm kinda curious what in SPTD causes this to happen..

Everyone having problems with SPTD and EAC's -usefua command, I need them to register to the SPTD forum (located here) and post in the 1.47 Public Beta forum that SPTD is breaking -usefua for you. Post your system specs, what kind of drive you have, what adapter and position (I don't know if that's correct terminology) your drive is located on, if you use microsoft's controller drivers or vendor specific... I think we can get this bug worked out if enough of us post that we're having issues.

I'm still using the old Daemon Tools 3.47 because I know it works with EAC -usefua on my Plextor drive. I think the latest Daemon Tools is using SPTD version 1.53. Does anyone know if they fixed the -usefua problem yet? Is it safe to use the latest Daemon Tools Lite now?

-Robert

The issue with -usefua should have been fixed as of SPTD 1.49.

Can you confirm that? Yah, I could try it myself, but I hate tinkering with a working PC.

Robert