QPxTool History

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** 0.5.4 (2006-07-13)

    - more drives support

fixed:
    - some minor bugfixes
        
new:
    - pxcontrol 0.9 - console Plextor control tool

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** 0.5.3 (2006-06-05)

new:
    - PIE/PIF on Lite-On drives
    - BenQ support (Cx and PIE/PIF)

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** 0.5.2 (2006-05-29)

new:
    - PIE/PIF scan on NEC drives

fixed:
    - manual vendor-specific command set selection didn't work in 0.5.0
	NB: some drives may hang, if you selected Lite-On commands

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** 0.5.1 (2006-05-27)

    - To get full fuctionality of Plextor PX-755/760 you need Plexluthor patched FW.
	can be found at this page:
	http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?category=4&manufactor=38

new:
    - Extended CD scan for Plextor drives.
	it shows BLER, E11, E21, E31, E12, E22, E32!
	(this graphs automatically included in saved html if Cx checked)
    - autoclearing tests results before new scan
    - manual selection of vendor-specific command set for you drive,
	if automatic recognition fails.
	Please report INQUIRY of your drive and command set, if it works!

fixed:
    - more realistic PIE/PIF scan results on Pioneer drives.
	now it runs with 8ECC interval, also results changed interpreting

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** 0.5.0 (2006-03-19)

    - some optimizations for lower CPU usage

new:
    - Plextor PX-755 now realy works! (with patched FW)
    - Plextor PX-130 support
    - PIE/PIF scan on Pioneer drives
    - C1/C2 scan on LiteOn drives
    - disc lock and eject ability
    - full VariRec support:
	separate Laserpower & Strategy change for CD & DVD
    - PoweRec support
    - shows GigaRec rate of inserted CD
    - Silent Mode support
    - Bitsetting for DVD+R & DVD+R DL
    - Simulation on DVD+R(W)
    - AutoStrategy support
    - PlexEraser support
    - FE/TE test

fixed:
    - drive selection is disabled during scan to prevent some problems
    - fixed speed detection problems on some DVD drives
	supported Realtime Streaming but refuses GET_PERFORMANCE command

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** 0.4.3 (2006-01-26)


problem:
    - PX-7[55|60] are not really supported due to
	'authorised commands'

new:
    - shows CD-R(W) manufacturer
    - Jitter in percentage
    - spindown setting
	(works correctly on all drives I have)
    - reduced CPU usage during Transfer Rate test
    - supported speeds detection instead fixed speeds list

fixed:
    - maximum speed selection now sets meximum speed on ALL drives

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** 0.4.2 (2005-12-09)

new:
    - Plextor PX-755 support 
	(same as PX760, but can't write DVD+/-R at 18x)
fixed:
    - fixed average CD read speed (it was multiplyed by 100)
    - fixed Segmentation Fault then selecting CD-ROM drive

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** 0.4.1 (2005-11-29)

fixed:
    - 'C2/PIF' in Pi/Cx tab was called 'C1/PIF' in 0.4.0
    - some minor bugfixes

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** 0.4.0 (2005-11-05)

    - C1/C2 on NEC drives tested. It works.

new:
    - tracks information displaying (type, duration...)
    - TA results clearing
    - results saving as .html or individual .png's

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** 0.3.5.8 (2005-10-30)

fixed:
    - transfer rate can't run on CD's in 0.3.5

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** 0.3.5 (2005-10-30)

    - improvements in media check code
    - changes in Capabilities page:
	"V" = drive supported this feature
	"X" = unsupported
	"?" = detection incomplete

new:
    - C1/C2 scan on NEC drives. UNTESTED!

fixed:
    - now correctly detects DVD+/-R(W)[DL]
	even if drive is DVD-ROM.
	only one problem - can't differ DVD-RW
	Restricted Overwrite from Sequential
    - some minor bugfixes

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** 0.3.4 (2005-10-25)

    - some GUI changes

new:
    - Plextor PX-760 support
    - result clearing ability

fixed:
    - speed setting method now different for CD and DVD
    - swaped DVD-RW Sequential and Restricted Overwrite

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** 0.3.3 (2005-10-21)

    - some GUI changes, added status and menu bar
    - test order changed: now Transfer Rate runs first

new:
    - simple build script added to prevent come compilation problems

fixed:
    - C1/C2/CU total & max error rate were zeroed at the end of scan
    - now zeroing writable size if drive is not writer,
	because readers can't perfectly detect free size

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** 0.3.2 (2005-10-07)

new:
    - more drive capabilities detection
        
fixed:
    - segmentation fault then trying to turn SpeedRead _on_ in 0.3.1

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** 0.3.1 (2005-10-06)

new:
    - shows current sector during test
    - test duration (for all tests, except TA)
    - realtime average error rate calculating, not only at the end of test
    - average speed
    - reading writer info from RMA (only for DVD-R)

fixed:
    - Plextor Hide CD-R and SingleSession goes off
	while detecting it (bug only in 0.3.0)
    - DVD DL media testing

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** 0.3.0 (2005-10-02)

new:
    - read/write capabilities detection
        CD-ROM/R/RW
        DDCD-ROM/R/RW
        DVD-ROM/RAM/-R/-RW/-RDL/+R/+RW/+RDL
        BD-ROM/R/RE
    - general capabilities detection

fixed:
    - for stability improvement all GUI operations moved to main thread
	(to prevent X assync reply error)
    - media type detection problems on MMC-1 drives
    - CD transfer rate test on drives not supported CD-DA commands

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** 0.2.1 (2005-09-21)

    - added hdu..hdz, sr16..sr21 to scan list
fixed:
    - spinup disc before transfer rate test
    - broken error calculation in 0.2.0

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** 0.2.0 (2005-09-20)

    - HISTORY renamed to ChangeLog
new:
    - PX-708A2 support
    - PX-714 support (same as PX-716)
    - vertical grid
    - grid for read transfer rate test
    - fixed horizontal scale:
	    750 sectors/pix for CD 
	    4368 sectors/pix for DVD
fixed:
    - missing Plextor Premium ID string
    - main thread goes down during tests in older versions

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** 0.1.2 (2005-09-09)

    - transport code reorganisation
fixed:
    - fatal error, then exit by window controls, not 'exit' button

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** 0.1.1 (2005-09-08)

    - some code cleanups
fixed:
    - real DVD transfer rate was limited to 3x

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** 0.1 (2005-09-04) first release

drives supported for disc quality testing:
    - Plextor:
	- PlexWriter Premium
	- PX-712
	- PX-716

features:
    - bus scaning (hda..hdt, sr0..sr15)
    - detecting media type (CD-ROM/R/RW, DVD-ROM/RAM/R/RDL/RW/+R/+RW/+RDL)
	    and MID code for DVD's
    - Plextor features:
	- GigaRec	
	- Hide-CDR
	- Single-Session
	- Speed Read	
    - Read transfer rate test
    - CD quality tests:
	- C1/C2/CU (logarythmic scale)
	- Beta/Jitter
    - DVD quality tests:
	- PIE (sum8) (logarythmic scale)
	- PIF (sum1) (logarythmic scale)
	- Beta/Jitter
	- TA (only PX-716 supported this)
