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...Are you sure the XD04 is getting enough power? Ensure all USB connectors are plugged in (if more than one). Don't use case ports. Use ports direct from the motherboard (if using a desktop PC) or an AC self-powered USB hub of at least 30w. If using a laptop, some USB ports don't provide enough co...

So why didn't you post that info in the first place? If you ask for help, you need to provide as much information as possible when doing so!! If you don't provide the info, you will get smartalec answers or no answers at all... ...Anyway, it's a 13+ year old drive. I'd be suprised if it stil works....

To rule out the software, try the free version of XReveal... Unfortunately, XReveal is a Windows application and I'm running Liniux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon. ...Regarding UHD you don't get it and so I will stop talking about UHDs. Some people just don't care to have the best picture and sound. Methinks y...

So what is your conclusion? Mine is the laser of the other drive is dead. BTW - the XD07 can be flashed to read UHDs - but you don't seem to be interested. The "laser" in my "doorstop" (I see two lenses in all my ODDs suggesting two lasers, which makes sense since CDs and DVDs u...

Even though they looked clean, I had already cleaned both with a 70% alcohol swab and dried it using the small air blower (not canned "air") I use for blowing dust out my computers. On the odd chance my copy of MakeMKV had gone bad, I fired up a known good ODD and got this: Drive Informati...

With the drive door open: Drive Information OS device name: /dev/sr0 Manufacturer: PIONEER Product: BD-RW BDR-XD04 Revision: 1.30 Serial number: LCDL010742UC Firmware date: 2012-09-05 Bus encryption flags: 13 Highest AACS version: 81 LibreDrive Information Status: Possible, but very unlikely to happ...

What is the obsession with UHD on these forums? I'm not asking about UHD; I only care about DVD and BD. What info are you looking for? I thought I already had? Well, UHD is the best of the best and is what most people purchase these days. You want to know how to get the drive to work with MakeMKV, ...

What is the obsession with UHD on these forums? I'm not asking about UHD; I only care about DVD and BD.

What info are you looking for? I thought I already had?

I just got my hands on a used Pioneer BDR-XD04 Bluray Drive. This from MakeMKV Drive platform: Pioneer RS8130 Firmware version: GENE What do I have to do to get it to work with MakeMKV? Please give me simple complete step by step directions how to do this (no telling me to put something in a dump so...

Are you sure you have restarted them (plugged off and then back) after SDF.bin update? Hunh? What update? Keep in mind, I'm on Linux Mint. Mind you, this SDF.bin update only enables libredrive which helps with standard bluray. It does not enable UHD readability for non UHD model Pioneer drives. Tha...

had to send them back because I couldn't rip a BD I had previously successfully ripped with one of my older drives with them (I didn't bother with trying a CD). The drives would just spin with nothing happening. Are you sure you have restarted them (plugged off and then back) after SDF.bin update? ...

...If only ripping CD/DVD/BD and not UHD, then any blu-ray drive will work. It just won't have LibreDrive enabled. If I was you, I'd wait a bit longer as apparently support for newer Pioneer drives may be coming very soon, maybe in the coming weeks! Then the XD08 will get libredrive support. Althou...

MartyMcNuts wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 17, 2025 6:52 am

Lady Fitzgerald wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 17, 2025 6:41 am

There was an update for MakeMKV (Linux Mint) recently. did that have any effect on the ability to flash the Pioneer BDR-XD08B?

No.

Oh, nuts! (sorry, couldn't resist )

There was an update for MakeMKV (Linux Mint) recently. did that have any effect on the ability to flash the Pioneer BDR-XD08B?

Thank you! I'll wait.