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thanks

is there any reason why someone would want an adapter with a power supply?
Afaik usually USB3 should be able to supply the drive with enough power.

getting too old? Well, i am already too old :? :mrgreen: the enclosure was only 15 €, so cutting/cracking a hole in the backplate isn't much of an issue. Then with the help of some gaffa tape this will "become a permanent/flexible desk/benchtop fixture" as well... :mrgreen: Since the drive...

i have more something like that on my mind

no, this wasn't me

So i guess i'll have to get me a SATA 22 pin > Slim SATA 13 Pin adapter and cut a hole in the backplate of the enclosure for connecting the drive to the PC via SATA instead of the USB cable

First of all: i have to correct the drive's name: it's not Hitachi, it is Hewlett Packard Unless it's the enclosure causing you grief, others seemed to have flashed the drive just by 'clicking past' warnings? the drive was bought new, so it's very unlikely that someone flashed it already. I didn't t...

what a crap.....
can't flash my drive.
Flash tool says it is not "MT1959 platform"...

thanks,
i was just wondering because firmware naming conventions like "BW4x" seem rather unusual for a BU40N drive. At least to me.
So i was trying to make sure not to brick the drive by using a firmware that might be uncompatible with a drive that by default has a firmware like the BW43.

thank you :-) while waiting for a reply i stumbled over this thread: " BU40N BW42 flashable DE firmware ": https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=101933#p101933 where the user @sgtblackice writes that he flashed to firmware 1.04 from the mk-firmware-pack-20200720 . I'm a little lo...

hi guys, i've got the Hitachi BDRE BU40N with Revision BW43. Firmware date: 2120-11-02 14:15 That's at least what MakeMKV shows. I want to flash it but i'm not sure which one of the mk-firmware-pack-20200720.zip is the correct one. Since i don't want to brick it i'm asking for some help and advice. ...

The Dune will be returned. CoreElec doesn't work as hoped and stated on the CoreElec homepage. 3D playback either stutters or crashes. Or both altogether. Also 2D playback stutters with CoreElec although 2D works fine in the Dune's original software. So IMHO the Dune is fine if you want to use its d...

Hello, atm i'm ripping (full backup) "Thor Love And Thunder 3D" Right at the beginning of the backup process MakeMkv spits out this message: "File "/dummy_f.dat" was skipped" Do i have to worry that the backup won't play as expected or can i ignore it? Thanks in advance...

yeah, sure.
If you want a full backup plus a *.mkv version of your BluRays then first backing up to a SSD or fast HDD and then ripping from that backup to a SSD or HDD is of course the fastest way.

The limiting factor is the speed of your optical drives. They are waaay slower than any modern HDD. So yes, ripping directly to HDD will save you time At the moment i'm in the process of backing up all my BluRays. I have two optical drives ripping directly to an external 18TB HDD. The HDD doesn't ev...

Thanks for your replies. i'm aware that ripping to mkv will make me lose the option of treating the backups like a regular physical disk. That's why i do full backups of my BluRay disks. Although i know that i'm "wasting" approximately 1/5 of my backup mediums' disk spaces. But i'm kinda o...

@Coopervid:
do you leave the settings in imgburn at default?