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Thank you for the informative reply! I'll go searching.

So, I uhh, sorta ran across a few HD-DVD discs at the local thrift show and bought them as a bit of a joke. Then I saw the changelog entry about fixing some HD-DVD bugs and it occured to me that maybe I could actually read them.

Can anyone suggest a drive for this purpose? This isn't a media I have ...

Flash was successful using the gui tool. Now it's a WH16NS60 running v1.02-MK. MakeMKV sees it and is using libredrive mode. I set the speed with '0=00' for the drive in the registry. Let's see if it had a riplock. :) it got up to almost 8x before, so I'm thinking it wasn't locked at least on BD50.

Roger that. Thank you for the guidance!

I guess I should mention that it's on the 1.05 firmware. Here's the output of MakeMKV:
Drive Information
OS device name: N:
Current profile: BD-ROM
Manufacturer: HL-DT-ST
Product: BD-RE WH14NS40
Revision: 1.05
Serial number: [REDACTED]
Firmware date: 2120-05-06 14:44
Bus encryption flags: 17
Highest ...

I was reading the guide on how to install libredrive firmware and I have a clarification question on one or two points. My drive says it's LibreDrive compatable in MakeMKV BETA. The drive label reads:
Model: WH14NS40
2015 10 20
ROM VER: 1.00
Manufactured: OCTOBER 2015
SVC CODE: NS50

The guide says ...