Billycar11 wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2019 5:20 am
This Guide Is Made By: Billy/Billycar11, Alex/jonghotti, MartyMcNuts, Blackened2687, d00zah, mike admin, SamuriHL, st4evr, TeddyRaspin and Woodstock
Even if they didn't contribute directly i have used their information
Recommended UHD Drives to get:
All of these drives will need to be flashed to unlock UHD Reading/Ripping
LG WH16NS60, UHD Official Internal 5.25
LG BU40N, UHD Official Internal Slim Sata 9.5mm
LG WH14NS40, UHD Friendly Internal 5.25
LG WH16NS40, UHD Friendly Internal 5.25
ASUS BW-16D1HT, UHD Friendly Internal 5.25
ASUS BW-16D1HT Pro, UHD Friendly Internal 5.25
LG BH16NS55, UHD Friendly Internal 5.25
Buffalo BRUHD-PU3-BK, UHD Official, External Slim 9.5mm USB 3.0-Must use Marty's asus tool to flash
Archgon MD-8107S-U3-UHD, UHD Official, External Slim 9.5mm USB 3.0-Marty
BP60NB10, UHD Official External Slim 9.5mm USB 2.0-Must use Marty's asus tool to flash 8/24/19 or later only
BP50NB40, UHD Officialish External Slim 9.5mm USB 2.0-Must use Marty's asus tool to flash 8/24/19 or later only with HBD Firmware only
There is no “Best Drive” They are all made by LG and rebranded the drives just fit different use cases.
Recommended Pre-Flashed Drive Sellers:
We are not affiliated with MakeMKV just fellow users
Billy:
Billycar5924@gmail.com
https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 20&t=17831 USA
Alex:
alexcoluzzi32@gmail.com
https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 20&t=17829 USA & International
Marty:
martymcnuts@outlook.com
https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 20&t=18747 Australia & NZ only
additional resources/options can be found here:
https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=20
USB enclosures/sata adapters that work with optical drives and flashing:
Vantec NST-536S3-BK 5.25 case
Vantec NST-510S3-BK 9.5mm slim sata case
OWC Mercury Pro 5.25 case
Unitek Y-1034 USB to sata cable-Marty
Unitek Y-1099 USB to sata cable-fishman
ICY BOX IB-550StU3S 5.25 case-ddeconin
USB enclosures/sata adapters that work with optical drives but don't support flashing:
Vantec CB-ST00U3?
Buffalo BR3D-12U3
Sleep Bug:
All UHD Friendly drives have the sleep bug, this is when a UHD disk is left idle in the drive for 2 minutes. Once the drive goes to sleep, the UHD Friendly drive will no longer be able to read the disk without opening and closing the disk tray and will make horrible seeking noises until this is done.
Sleep Bug Fix:
To fix the sleep bug on a UHD Friendly drive flash firmware from an UHD Official drive like WH16NS60 DE 1.00 or 1.01MK
IMPORTANT Before you flash:
1. Make sure your Drive was built after 2015
2. Drive Platform MT1959<Most important
3. SVC NS50+ LG only
4. Just because your drive is the same model number does not mean it will work, if you are unsure ask me i offer remote flashing and check everything before i flash.
5. Dont flash your dive if it does not meet these requirements if you do you will be unable to read all disks and unable to restore without dosflash that does not work on most modern computers
Crossflashing:
1. Changes the drive to act as another and gain most or all of its benefits
2. Can be used to increase a drives ripping speed and fix the sleep bug
Crossflashing Warnings:
1. Don't crossflash desktop drives to slim drives or the other way around
2. In some cases crossflashing an Asus drive to an LG or the other way around you may no longer be able to burn disks-SamuriHL
3. Flashing Official UHD firmware to a UHD Friendly drive will not enable Powerdvd aacs 2 decryption or playback
Newer OEM Firmwares:
LG 1.04+ BU40N 1.03 Asus 3.10+ and similar
The newer OEM firmwares cannot be flashed easily due to the additional downgrade checks. If your drive has one of these firmwares, and there is no MK version of the same or higher number, you will have to sidegrade to Asus 3.10MKor LG 1.04MK. Then flash to your desired firmware if you don't want that one.
Unlocked Flashers, Downgrade Enabled Firmware and MK Firmware:
https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 16&t=18933
https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 873#p70284
https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 19&t=19113
https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 19&t=19422
How To Flash Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfpf6HoMMis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXgybNfHhcg - Obsolete but can be useful for recovery
NS40 Recovery Image:
Flashed an NS50 firmware to an NS40 drive and can no longer read disks this IMG has all the NS40 FW you need to recover your drive just follow my dos flash video guide linked above
https://www.mediafire.com/file/8by2zqop ... D.zip/file Made by
Useful Links:
Manual Libredrive SDF download only for offline systems:
http://www.makemkv.com/svq/sdf.bin
Hashed keys for UHD disks only for offline systems:
https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 12&t=16959