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i have had many s13ux/jx work fine in owc case but they were on 1.03
i think this is a libredrive issue on 1.04 i would have mike look at this

mike admin wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 16, 2025 1:36 am

if your not doing UHD its not worth the risk of flashing seen way to many people mess it up and all the fake drives are screwing people too

Likely done for if you cleaned laser and still nothing

no to old

Are you sure? 8801 indicates a S11 /211 drive. i will have to check i have not powered mine on yet and probably wont for some time have a lot of xd08 to do i assumed its the same hw as the x13 series as its in the same case and similar release date X13s are 94xx. 8801 seems to be a S11 /211. does s...

Coopervid wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 20, 2025 10:16 pm

Are you sure? 8801 indicates a S11 /211 drive.

i will have to check i have not powered mine on yet and probably wont for some time have a lot of xd08 to do
i assumed its the same hw as the x13 series as its in the same case and similar release date

It bears mentioning that BDXL and UHD are different beasts. Physically, three-layer BDXL and UHD are almost identical, both using 33.3GB per layer and slightly shorter pits and lands than normal. But the BDA wanted to protect itself and licensed them separately. Any drive that is physically capable...

I don't have much experience with cleaning discs like that. In theory I agree. :) I've only seen Billycar11 suggest the Q-tip and isopropyl alcohol method. Both of you have way more hands-on experience with optical drives than me. To my friends, I'm the weirdo with 5 optical drives in 2025 but that...

it not the actual drive model i send you an xd08 the fw is from an xd08u makemkv now supports all UHD pioneers even on the latest fw What do you mean MakeMKV now supports all UHD Pioneers even on latest FW? Like if I find any Pioneer UHD drive on FB Marketplace I can purchase that and have you flas...

I just got my drive and it works great! I am curious how it was made to work, though. I assumed it would've been cross-flashed with firmware from before November 22 but the firmware reads the actual drive model with firmware from 2024! I'd love a dumbed down version of what's done to make the drive...

Hello, Long time user, first time writer. I was wondering if you still have some drives available. I would be interested in one. yeah just email me might take a day or 2 for me to get to you but im answer all emails in the order they come in expect shipping delays im about 100 orders behind with mo...

Manufacturer: PIONEER Product: BD-RW BDR-X13U Revision: 1.00 Serial number: BBDL001208WL Firmware date: 2021-12-19 Bus encryption flags: 1B LibreDrive Information Status: Possible, not yet enabled Drive platform: Pioneer RS9401 Firmware version: ID43 Not sure if i'm doing something wrong here, upda...

urf what scumbags see the recovery section of the guide below and follow the old dos flash video thats says useful for recovery Tried that already, does not work for me for some reason. Thus asking about manual editing of the firmware. it does work i have done it you are just missing or misinterpre...

urf what scumbags
see the recovery section of the guide below and follow the old dos flash video thats says useful for recovery

Should work as is now just update makemkv and download the latest sdf