At DVDwriters.co.uk you will find a review of Panasonics LF-D311 DVD writer. The drive only writes DVDs (4.7GB DVD-RAM 22.16Mbps (max, 2.6GB DVD-RAM 11.08Mbps (max), 4.7GB DVD-R 11.08Mbps (max)) and it does not support CD writing of any kind.
The drive reads DVD-ROM, DVD-R and DVD-RAM
and has a buffer underrun protection. One of the things tested in this review is if the the drive can be used to make backups of Playstation 2 games:
We tried to make a backup of a Playstation 2 game; we found out why we were unsuccessful with our previous attempt with the A03... and this time we succeeded in copying and booting the backup on our JAP PSX2 machine. |
We used Windows XP to make the backup of the Playstation 2 game because the size of the image was more than what FAT32 could handle. Note: FAT formats (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32) use a 32-bit value for the file size, this means a maximum file size of 4,294,967,294 bytes -- short of the 4.7GB needed for the imaging of a full DVD (XP and Windows 2000 use NTFS which uses a 64-bit value but only 44-bits are used for the file size).
Source: DVDwriters.co.uk
