dcoke22 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 14, 2025 3:47 pm
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.
dcoke22 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 14, 2025 3:47 pm
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.
dcoke22 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 14, 2025 3:47 pm
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?
dcoke22 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 14, 2025 3:47 pm
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?