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Update: Amazon has run out of the old case.

I purchased an Archgon as it was shown as a device that would work, of course I saw that prior to this post. So after getting it and the firmware not updating, I came back to the forum to find this, well fu$%.... So I decided to mess around a bit to see if I could figure it out before I would decid...

Billycar11 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 12, 2026 12:21 am

Don't buy an archgon at all now as they blocked flashing and libre drive in the case

It may be fixed eventually but not yet

This is only true for their UHD model

It's been down since late 2022 or early 2023. The only way to access it is via the Internet Archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20220426141 ... v.com/faq/, although the links still don't seem to work.

Hey yall! I was doing some research and came up with a hypothesis. Considering the MD8107S-U3 and MD8107S-U3-UHD both contain the BU40N internally, hypothetically it would be better just to buy the non-UHD model and flash it, since it works over USB unlike the UHD version, and UHD is still possible,...

Thanks for your reply! I am aware of that change and yes it is the Archgon BU40N. I did indeed take it out of its enclosure and directly use Slimline sata.

Also I am running the OS via a SSD over USB and the drive is directly plugged in via SATA on the PC

Hello guys, I was trying to flash LibreDrive firmware onto my BU40N drive which currently runs 1.02. I was attempting to flash it to LibreDrive-patched 1.04. The commands I tried running are: * makemkvcon f -d 'dev_21:0' -f ./sdf.bin rawflash enc -i ./bu40nfirm.bin * makemkvcon f -d '/dev/sr0' -f ./...

Hello guys! :D Today I want to share an online site I built that is an easy browsable collection of LibreDrive firmware. Here it is: https://firm.ld.tpglit.ch Important Note: This firmware collection is not officially associated with MakeMKV or its developers. The collection is based on this topic: ...