Playing "Starforce" protected games. Guide please!

[Morglum007]

Originally Posted by DABhand

God are people still blaming SF for killing optical drives.

I guess wear and tear doesnt exist then? Or coincendence that old drives and some newer with already faults died when using a SF protected game?

Wish people would stop hanging onto this extremely stupid over used excuse that thousands have adopted.

As always, DABhand u pointing in the wrong direction.

TIP: To reply Fosters reply, nope, it isnt needed a big lab to do testings. Just build up a computer with several partitions (i mean, clean windows/Sfucked), with different hardware configurations (IDE,SCSI...) and different drives (burners/readers). Just get a proggie like Bushound or similar and install it. Then use ur brain to deactivate SF anticracking tricks in driver and just "listen". Preserve logs in read timings and use nero speed or Plextols if available to check ECC/ECR errors and disk quality.

Make that dayly and check drives status after just ONE month. Enjoy with results.

Ppl that does have ears and eyes, pay attention, ppl who doesnt, at ur own risk, stay ignorant.

-- Edit --
Uh, just forgot, specially aggresive up to 3.7 version, in CAV/PCAV zone. From 3.7 on, check on disk changed to CLV zone, making check weakest, bur more compatible (i mean, less hazardous)

Good luck