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I had to downgrade to 1.17.7 to escape the stuck versions.

Experiencing the same on my Gentoo system with 1.18.1 using a Asus drive:

makemkvcon f -l
Found 1 drives(s)
00: dev_21:3, /dev/sr0, /dev/sr0
ASUS_BW-16D1HT_3.11_212012011759_KLAP37I2815



SDF.bin version: 0x0098

Drive Tool SDF present

Drive Specific SDF not present

Identification SDF ...