New To MKV- Need help flashing

[mannyca08]

Hello,
I'm new to the MKV forum. I have downloaded and registered the MKV program. I'm trying to see how to flash my hard drive. This is the information I have on it:

Drive: ASUS_BW-16D1X-U

Drive Information
OS device name: H:
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: BW-16D1X-U
Revision: E113
Serial number:
Firmware date: 2020-07-21
Bus encryption flags: 1B
Highest AACS version: 42

LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible, not yet enabled
Drive platform: Pioneer RS8F00
Firmware version: ID76

I know the drive platform doesn't say mt1959 but for the status, it says possible, not yet enabled. Also downloaded the SDFtool and the firmware files. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

[dyoung]

1st link from Google when I searched "libredrive ASUS_BW-16D1X-U".

viewtopic.php?t=24990
You shall find relevant links a few posts down.

[Qorellon]

I don't believe SDFtool flasher is compatible with your Pioneer drive. I would PM Coopervid with your specs in order to get custom flashing instructions for your drive. Maybe Billy's flashing tool would work for this.

[dyoung]

I don't believe SDFtool flasher is compatible with your Pioneer drive. I would PM Coopervid with your specs in order to get custom flashing instructions for your drive. Maybe Billy's flashing tool would work for this.

PM people?
...
Following the link I provided in my prior post, the 2nd to the last post in that thread provides links to tools & firmware, the last post in that thread is the OP of the thread (who has the same drive as the OP of this thread) posting what failed & what succeeded for him to enable LibreDrive.

That being the case, why are you suggesting PMing people and wasting their time to privately re-answer a question which was already publicly answered?
If the OP of this thread fails to enable LibreDrive after reading the thread I linked and following what they did, then he should post what he did and the results for us to try to help him more.

[dcoke22]

I don't believe SDFtool flasher is compatible with your Pioneer drive. I would PM Coopervid with your specs in order to get custom flashing instructions for your drive. Maybe Billy's flashing tool would work for this.

PM people?
...
Following the link I provided in my prior post, the 2nd to the last post in that thread provides links to tools & firmware, the last post in that thread is the OP of the thread (who has the same drive as the OP of this thread) posting what failed & what succeeded for him to enable LibreDrive.

That being the case, why are you suggesting PMing people and wasting their time to privately re-answer a question which was already publicly answered?
If the OP of this thread fails to enable LibreDrive after reading the thread I linked and following what they did, then he should post what he did and the results for us to try to help him more.

The OP in the link you posted, KlatuVerataNikto, posted a picture of their MakeMKV screen showing the drive internals as the LG based MT1959 platform. The '2nd to the last post' post (on page 1), from d00zah, is correct for folks to help themselves flashing their own drive with the appropriate LG platform.

The OP in this thread, mannyca08, posted their MakeMKV info of their drive which clearly shows their drive platform is Pioneer RS8F00. The links in the post from d00zah will not work for mannyca08's drive.

Qorellon is correct that SDFtool Flasher does not support flashing Pioneer drives. It only works on LG based drives, like KlatuVerataNikto's drive.

Qorellon is also correct in his suggestion that Coopervid might have a non-public flasher and instructions he might be willing to share if asked. And it is also true that Billycar11 might have an autoflasher for that drive. I'm not aware of a public flasher available to cross-flash Pioneer drives. If you check the last 20-ish posts of the thread you linked (on page 16) you'll see Coopervid and Billycar11 responding to people with the same model drive with Pioneer internals as mannyca08 (the OP of this thread).

It is often the case that manufacturers change a drive's internals without changing a drive's model number. You need to be aware of both to know what the right path forward is.

[dyoung]

The OP in the link you posted, KlatuVerataNikto, posted a picture of their MakeMKV screen showing the drive internals as the LG based MT1959 platform. The '2nd to the last post' post (on page 1), from d00zah, is correct for folks to help themselves flashing their own drive with the appropriate LG platform.

The OP in this thread, mannyca08, posted their MakeMKV info of their drive which clearly shows their drive platform is Pioneer RS8F00. The links in the post from d00zah will not work for mannyca08's drive.

My mistake.
When I Googled his drive and quickly found a thread discussing it, I skimmed the thread to find "Success!" or similar solely to verify the drive was able to be flashed.
Perhaps I skipped & skimmed too much because I was annoyed the OP of this thread did not do the same quick Google search I did to find that thread, thereby saw it as wasting my time to read that entire thread.
You know, because it is becoming so very common for people to simply ask the same question 50k times instead of doing a quick Google search.

Qorellon is correct that SDFtool Flasher does not support flashing Pioneer drives. It only works on LG based drives, like KlatuVerataNikto's drive.

Was not specifically aware of this because it did not apply to my drives but am aware of the concept "tool A works with hardware A but possibly/probably not B or C".
None of us know all, including me.

Qorellon is also correct in his suggestion that Coopervid might have a non-public flasher and instructions he might be willing to share if asked. And it is also true that Billycar11 might have an autoflasher for that drive. I'm not aware of a public flasher available to cross-flash Pioneer drives. If you check the last 20-ish posts of the thread you linked (on page 16) you'll see Coopervid and Billycar11 responding to people with the same model drive with Pioneer internals as mannyca08 (the OP of this thread).

This I question. Not the possibility they have a tool for this specific hardware, but rather the need to PM them.
In nearly all forums I ever used, they always wanted discussions to be public and tools to be posted publicly so the people could post the information/tool once and be done instead of needing to spend time individually helping every person who needs it.
Why is it being suggested they be contacted privately for this?

It is often the case that manufacturers change a drive's internals without changing a drive's model number. You need to be aware of both to know what the right path forward is.

Aware of this possibility, merely skipped too much reading to know that was the situation here.
As I said, was trying to not waste more of my time ensuring the answer was found because it really should be done by the OP before asking a question again if the question was answered before and found so easily as it was for me.
Which, you also said the solution WAS posted in the thread I linked for the model of this OP's drive, so....

Still, I should probably be careful of this issue in the future.
This is not an issue I commonly found in the tech world, almost ever actually.
Is it common with trying to find libredrive flashable drives?

[Woodstock]

Because this isn't the "flash my firmware forum", and what they're offering isn't part of MakeMKV. It's a decision the owner of the forum made years ago, and they've abided by it.