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To round off this review, we will run some advanced tests on the Panasonic SW-5582, including Sheep Tests and Overburning CD/DVD media.

The 'Sheep Test":

For this test, we will use the Sheep tests made by Alexander Noé. Why is it called the sheep test? That's because the logo of the first 1 to 1 copy program called CloneCD is a sheep. When looking at supported writers, you will notice that the feature list has sheep to indicate if a feature is supported or not. In this case we are interested in the writer's ability to backup/write weak sectors. Also called: 'Correct EFM encoding of regular bit-patterns."

⋅         No sheep: Can't backup any Safedisc 2 versions without the help of software tricks

⋅         1 Sheep: Can backup Safedisc 2 up to version 2.4x without software tricks

⋅         2 Sheep: Can backup Safedisc 2, including version 2.5x

⋅         3 Sheep: Can write all possible weak sectors, few if any writers could do this.

One of our forum moderators Womble, has written a guide concerning the 'Sheep Test" that can be found here.

In the screenshot below taken from CloneCD, we see the Panasonic SW-5582 supports everything.

The Panasonic SW-5582 does not support DAO-RAW96 recording mode, which basically means it can not write uncorrected data and sub-channel data.

As we can see from the table the Panasonic SW-5582 is a 'Two Sheep Burner", but it failed to write the Safedisc V2.90 and Sheep3 tests.

CD-R Overburning test:

To test the CD-R overburning capabilities of Panasonic SW-5582, we used the overburning test in Nero CD-DVD Speed. According to Nero CD-DVD Speed the drive can overburn disc larger then 99/100 minutes. For this test we used unbranded Infodisc 99min/900mb CD-R.

Nero CD-DVD Speed reported that the Panasonic SW-5582 can overburn larger than 100 minutes, however in the following test we attempt to create a test disc of 99:00 minutes. See below:

There are no problem overburning this media up to 99:00 minutes. We now ran a quality scan to check the created discs readability.

The scan shows a very good result. We conclude that the Panasonic SW-5582 supports overburning 99 minutes CD-R media.

DVD+R Overburning test:

To test the DVD+R overburning capabilities of the Panasonic SW-5582, we used the overburning test in Nero CD-DVD Speed with Taiyo Yuden DVD+R 8x certified media.

From Nero CD-DVD Speed Overburning Test screenshots above, the drive does not support overburning, thus we conclude that the Panasonic SW-5582 does not support overburning 4600MB DVD+R.

This concludes our Panasonic SW-5582 review, lets head on to the last page to read our conclusion…

Blu-ray Features & Writing Performances

Conclusion