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by Liersi » Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:49 am
1.15.1 didn't make a difference in my case, but that's really interesting. I think I've seen that happen before.
Guys, I've seen black magic and need an exxplanation. I kept trying, and Jaws wouldn't even be recognised by my best reader, the ASUS. I applied Samuri's speed recommendations and tried the LGs again: better, but didn't complete. Jaws crapped on out that beginning of the disc, and Doctor Sleep failed on the third layer. Clearly the firmware on the LGs was handling these better, but they had trouble reading them.
Then I had a desperate idea: the ASUS has been the best at reading UHDs and problem discs. It reads everything. It just won't recognise Jaws. The LG firmware I flashed (WH16NS60) recognises Jaws right away on the LGs. So why not risk it an try my best firmware on my best horse? So I did, and the ASUS-cum-LG ate Jaws like it was a kid on an inflatable banana. I'd even forgotten to apply the speed rule for this newly-flashed drive. Didn't matter, just blazed through it. Then I tried Doctor Sleep, which read just as fast, failed once on layer 3, then completed successfully after another isopropyl wipedown.
So, someone explain this black magic voodoo shit to me. It was the same damn drive that couldn't so much as recognise Jaws as a disc. It was blind. Then I flash another firmware and it goes "oh, there you are buddy" and reads both of the impossible discs? How it that possible?
I can only assume that you need two things to succeed: get lucky in getting good reader hardware, and then get the right firmware on it.