I think now that the fault lay in the inability of the burner to read it the way it needed to as I was able to make the copy with blindsuite only when I did the read with my asus cdrom
That's what I have been reading at CDfreaks.com.
It's hard to stay on top of this because things change nearly every day. However it seems, as good as Liteons are at writing, they are still not the best at reading the new protections. They still have trouble dealing with SecuROM NEW and SafeDisk 2.8+. (I believe this was still true with the 48x burners. Don't know about the 52X burners).
The best combinations still seem to require a Liteon Burner + a seperate reader. Liteon DVDROMS work good. I think Pioneer DVDROMS do. Not sure which are best CDROMS but if your ASUS worked for you then it is probably one of the better ones.
For a single drive solution I think the ASUS units are still the top choice. They are good readers and writers plus they can handle the latest protections, even some of the Audio CD protections.
Still a crap shoot with software though. Don't know which reader, burner, software combinations can knock off SD 2.8+ or the latest SecuROM NEW versions. For the latter you definitely need something that writes Twin Sectors, needed to fool SecuROMs protection. Plus you need a reader that doesn't choke on the Twin Sectors. People seem to be having mixed results, knocking off different protections with different software. Some copies work on most drives, some only on a few or only one drive, like just on the burner. (I think I heard if a copy works on a Toshiba CDROM then the copy is a very good one indeed).
Don't recall all the issues with SafeDisc 2.8 (and a few other versions) but there was the blacklisting issue. Liteons were definitely affected by this.
None of this info is from personal experience. Just trying to stay on top of the latest news and rumors and having trouble telling which is which. (Hope I haven't just contributed to the rumor mill).
<b>99% is great, unless you are talking about system stability</b>