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That's a really useful data point — thanks for following up. Two things stand out: your BU40N reports "Drive platform: MT1959", which is the same underlying chip platform as the ASUS BW-16D1HT (different brand, same silicon). So this may be more of an MT1959-platform-specific sensitivity than a ...

Thanks for that — useful data point. Between your PS5 glitch (recoverable) and my Panasonic UB820 playing the original disc perfectly fine, it seems like normal playback tolerates this disc a lot better than ripping does — buffered/retry-friendly playback vs. raw sector-by-sector extraction.
Your ...

For anyone following: swapped from my ASUS BW-16D1HT to a Verbatim external drive with a Pioneer BDR-UD04 mechanism, running in Direct disc access mode. Clean full rip of the replacement disc with MakeMKV, ZERO errors!

Seems it was the ASUS drive that was the actual problem. However it worked fine ...

Update: Received the replacement disc and ran a full set of tests.

MKV extraction (latest MakeMKV): Two attempts, both failed. Most recent fail: title 11, offset 367392768 — same ILLEGAL REQUEST: INVALID FIELD IN CDB error, different offset than the original disc.
Full raw Backup (Decrypt unchecked ...

I returned the disc a week or so ago and I am waiting for the replacement. Will post back with results.

Update:

I have now tested multiple MKV extraction attempts, a full Backup, increased Retry Count to 50, Windows reboot, and a complete power-off restart.

The failure point is not completely consistent, but all attempts eventually fail with:

Scsi error - ILLEGAL REQUEST: INVALID FIELD IN CDB ...

The drive is connected internally via SATA directly to the motherboard. It is not in an external enclosure.

Update:

After rebooting Windows, the behavior changed significantly.

The rip no longer fails at /BDMV/STREAM/00294.m2ts offset 2913730560.

This time MakeMKV progressed for about 55 minutes and produced approximately 28.7 GB before failing.

The new failure occurred at:

/BDMV/STREAM/00681.m2ts ...

Hi,

I am having a reproducible issue with the new Avatar: Fire and Ash UHD.

Drive Information:

ASUS BW-16D1HT
Firmware 3.10
LibreDrive enabled
Firmware type: Patched (microcode access re-enabled)

Disc Information:

Avatar: Fire and Ash UHD
Retail disc, purchased new
Label: AVATAR_FIRE_AND_ASH ...

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Should work as is
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I found elsewhere on the forum it does not with this particular drive and firmware... Seems firmware is not possible to patch.

Just wanted to give cheers to SDFtool and firmware pack made available (the all you need firmware pack). My brand new Asus BW‑16D1HT with 3.11 (asus newest) downgraded to 3.10 and now runs libre and rips the newest uhd-movies I've got. Great!

is there a patched firmware around for the Pioneer UD04 to make it fully libredrive compatible?
Drive Information
OS device name: \Device\CdRom0
Current profile: BD-ROM
Manufacturer: PIONEER
Product: BD-RW BDR-UD04
Revision: 1.14
Serial number: DHDL158984WL
Firmware date: 2020-06-15
Bus encryption ...

Ordered from Amazon yesterday and it came delivered today. It is a Pioneer drive still! (BDR-UD04 with 1.14)
Hooked it up and I am ripping without issues from the start. Sweet.
First movie (72Gb file) took about 48 min.