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I've just purchased a flasher and the activation was successful. Thank you for this !

To clarify, this should work with any flashable MT1959 drive, yes ? Including a BU50N ?


Yes, as long as the drive meets the usual criteria:

Manufactured from 2016+
uses the MT1959 drive platform
Has a ...

Hi, have my ASUS BW-16D1HT with the following firmware for many years.
Looking for advice whether there is some newer version worth flashing?
Use the drive mostly for ripping my CD and BD/UHD collection...thanks

Drive Information
OS device name: W:
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: BW-16D1HT
Revision ...

Sayaka wrote: Fri Jul 03, 2026 10:57 pm Personally, I am getting a "The selected attachment does not exist anymore." error when clicking on the download link for that firmware.

Perhaps, the Admins removed it. There were far too many attachments cluttering up the forum and making it almost unusable.

Hello everyone.

I have an external lg drive WP50NB40 svc Code NB 40 . I made a big mistake flashing it with the MK firmware pack for UHD. I flashed it with the MK Firmware WP50NB40-NB50. Now the drive is a brick I cannot find the original firmware to get make my drive work again. Can anyone ...

a feature request for the flash tool

kept having 0xff056103 and only finding I didn't try to eject that disc.
I know this is dumb, but prompting an eject before flashing would be very helpful.


This is specified in the Requirements & Usage sections of the first post where you download the tool.

NEW Single Drive Flasher is now available:
A fast, reliable Windows tool for flashing optical drives using the MT1959 drive platform, with a clean interface and secure licence activation. The tool clearly shows you the recommended version for your chosen drive and also other available firmware ...

Sayaka wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 4:49 pm

No idea what SDF stands for. Google (AI) tells me it's Secure Drive Firmware LOL. (Kinda doubt that.)

I always assumed it just meant Supported Drive Firmware, just like HK seems to refer to Hashed Keys. I could be wrong though.

Realy, who cares? It is not relevant for anything.

Good morning,

I would like to buy a used Pioneer BDR-XS07B-UHD drive.
But I would like to know before I buy it, what is the latest firmware version that supports flashing so that I could rip DVD, normal bluray and UHD bluray?

Thank you very much


The XS07B is not a UHD drive. If it has ...

chihwahli wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 11:51 am

MartyMcNuts wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2024 4:24 am

JohnR3184 wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2024 3:22 am Is firmware 1.03 MK better than 1.04 MK?

Yes and 1.00 is even better.

Marty?
Bought your 1.03 version a while ago when I was using mainly Windows 11. Now I am using Ubuntu as main, any need to switch to 1.00 for by BU40N slim?
Thank you in advance.

Not unless you have read issues.

... The "specs" on both drives as displayed in MakeMKV are provided below... Note that the Buffalo drive says that Libre drive is "Possible, not yet enabled" . But I do not recall doing anything to enable the Asus drive! I guessed that this happened "automatically"??

Asus:

Drive ...

You might have been lucky and got an older one, before they changed something in the enclosure that stops flashing and libredrive from working.


I ordered it last week, it arrived today. I bought this one because someone on reddit mentioned it'd worked for them. It worked for me too. Don't ...

That drive can't be flashed in the case last I have seen


I just used my flashed drive to rip a UHD disk, so I do think it works.


Please post the MakeMKV drive information.


Here you go. I flashed it using Windows, but I'm using it on an Apple machine.

Drive Information
OS device name ...

MakeMKV has command line functionality that can be used to flash LG based drives. The SDFtool is a Windows application that provides a Windows GUI interface to that command line functionality. The app thedavidweng pointed to appears to be a Mac application that provides a GUI interface to the ...

Hello,

I emailed MKB20_v61_Valerian_And_The_City_of_a_Thousand_Planets_3F2B.tgz. I updated KEYDB.cfg right before attempting the copy.


You do know that MakeMKV's hashed keys database and the KeyDB are two separate things, right?

You email the dump to svq@makemkv.com so a key can be added to ...

apologies thats a fair point

MakeMKV v1.18.4 win(x64-release) started
Using LibreDrive mode (v06.3 id=866A98CB9C4E)
Using direct disc access mode
Loaded content hash table, will verify integrity of M2TS files.
The AACS dump file "C:\Users\jhysl/.MakeMKV/MKB20_v77_Terrifier3_53A7.tgz" was ...