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Had all but given up here a few months ago - on a whim I logged in last night and lo and behold - in all their glory are the ...steps to reflash (and they work!)
Your steps worked! And just completed a successful run. Thank you

I did run into the same issue as Marty did (this thread) where the ...

I'm on a Linux distro with makemkv 1.15.1 installed.

Here's the drive firmware prior to flashing my new external Archgon UHD

$ makemkvcon f --list
00: dev_21:2, /dev/sr1, /dev/sr1
HL-DT-ST_BD-RE_BU40N_1.01_211712221221_MO6JAJ93453


and after flashing with the wrong FW (DE_LG WH16NS60_1.00.bin ...

Billycar11 wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 7:51 pm Flash it to BU40N 1.00 de

Awesome. That's actually the one I originally had planned on using. I couldn't find it tho which led me to default to the other two in my 2nd post. Thanks for confirming and all the work you put in!

Thanks for the input @d00zah Makes sense. One would hope there wouldn't be a serious repercussion other than a command exit by leaving 'enc' out (or vice versa). Didn't want to assume that tho without asking first.

Thanks all for the help and material. I think I'm good to go now except for two last questions


1. Regarding which Libre Firmware to use - I've narrowed them down to two.

From these two I'm unable to tell which one (if either) is ok to use.
Potential LibreDrive Firmware:
HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N ...

I appreciate it you guys and will check all the material out.
Depending on how things go I may need a bit more help. Hopefully not.

btw - Thanks to MakeMKV for everything.

I'm running the elementaryOS linux distro on an older macbook I wiped years ago. I'm quite comfortable with the command line, make tools, packages, etc. but I've never flashed firmware before and actually wouldn't mind knowing a bit about how it works.

From what I've read here - a few of you seem ...