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Ok, there're two possibilities in my opinion: 1. Get the drive out for a look to the modell. The save way. or 2. Blind trying the recovery mode with the SDF Flasher. In the first drop down menu use the BU40N firmware from the first flash and in the second drop down use the WH16NS60 1.02MK. In the we...

A few steps back: Do you know which drive the MakeMKV drive information has shown before the BU40N flash?

It's a LG drive in a Buffalo enclosure.

Check the third post here, perhaps it will help to get the drive out --> viewtopic.php?t=41293

As I thought. This is an older LG drive which can't be flashed and with the flash to the BU40N the drive is bricked, I think. You can try open the enclosure for the look to the sticker to find out the drive modell. Then try a flash with the native LG flashing tool for this modell if this tool is ava...

Once again, navigating the forum has been very tiring and time-consuming these last few days.

I assume you have the 5,25" Buffalo drive and not the slim USB drive and you've flashed the slim drive firmware to 5,25" drive I 've don't see yet a 4K flashable Buffalo enclosure which contains a 5,25" LG, so I don't think the recovery mode will help. Please show picture of the front...

The BU40N is the best LG drive and with the 1.03MK, in my opinion, it scratches at the quality of the the lower Pioneer drives like BDR-UD04 or BDR-XD05 series. I had no clean disk which were ripped by a BDR-UD04 and which couldn't ripped by a BU40N 1.03MK. I had only one bad scratched disc in the p...

Lol, yes, the artificial stupidity ...

@ superspartan:

Your drive is a 4K drive out of the box (BDR-XS07UHD) and libredrive ist enabled. So have fun with ripping discs up to 4K.

Question is which drives will they use? LG and Pioneer has stopped production. Panasonic / Matshita? But there're no 4k (flashable) drives.

Yeah, ASUS is an OEM manufacturer like Buffalo, Techpulse, Archgon, Verbatim and others.

They use drives from manufacturer LG, Pioneer or Panasonic / Matshita.

No! Don't flash it, as Billy and Marty wrote.

The newer firmware for the WH16NS40 is for the drives younger than 2015 and with platform MT1959. Not for the old platform MT1939.

The first of the two I bought contains a BW-16D1HT, S/N starts with TCD an was built in December 2025.
The second I will check later of the day. I assume, it will be the same.

I have two brand new at home since yesterday. Good deal from German online shop. Will check today after work, I'm curious which drives are inside.

So it came with native firmware 1.00 I assume. Great. If you'll have issues with some discs try 1.03MK. Without problems you can let the firmware as it is.

Ah, ok, right!