BU40N not reading all discs

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Skyterix
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BU40N not reading all discs

Post by Skyterix » Wed Feb 03, 2021 7:06 pm

I've recently got a used BU40N which I flashed with a 1.03MK and then to 1.04MK. And its behaving weird. I tried some random blueray disc I found lying around and it works 30GB is normally read and I can rip it. But then I tried Zootopia disc both 1080p and 4K and drive is not even registering a disc calming that no disc is inserted.

I tried downgrading to 1.01MK already but it's the same problem. It can't be a laser right? It's reading another blueray normally. And its not only UHD since it can't read other disc too.

I should probably note that I am using this drive in some old laptop I found lying around since I don't have an USB adapter yet. Can it be some power issue?

Do anyone has any ideas what the cause could be?

nebl78
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Re: BU40N not reading all discs

Post by nebl78 » Sun Feb 07, 2021 1:58 pm

I have the same problems with an archgon bu40n firmware 1.00.
Drive is 2 days old

Have 3 different UHD disks always tried error read between 20 and 30 GB.
UHD Movies:
Tenet
King Arthur
Justice League

Also tried several platforms.
Windows 10
Big Sur MacOS

but only the MKV software 1.15.4


Blue ray HD all work

nebl78
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Re: BU40N not reading all discs

Post by nebl78 » Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:00 pm

I also set the disk speed to code "0 = 8"
set but unfortunately exactly the same mistakes.

MartyMcNuts
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Re: BU40N not reading all discs

Post by MartyMcNuts » Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:19 pm

nebl78 wrote:
Sun Feb 07, 2021 1:58 pm
I have the same problems with an archgon bu40n firmware 1.00.
Drive is 2 days old

Have 3 different UHD disks always tried error read between 20 and 30 GB.
UHD Movies:
Tenet
King Arthur
Justice League

Also tried several platforms.
Windows 10
Big Sur MacOS

but only the MKV software 1.15.4


Blue ray HD all work
Are you connecting both USB's on the y-cable? or using the USB-C cable?
Also, try rolling MakeMKV back to v1.15.2
Cheers :D
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nebl78
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Re: BU40N not reading all discs

Post by nebl78 » Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:50 am

The L drive remains off with both USB connections of the Y-cable. I don't have USB-C for testing.

Version 1.15.2 same problems as with version 1.15.4


These errors came with Tenet 4K:

Failed to save title 1 to file /Users/punisher/Movies/Tenet/Tenet_t01.mkv
Encountered 18 errors of type 'HashCheck Error' - see http://www.makemkv.com/errors/hashcheck/...
0 titles saved, 1 failed
Using LibreDrive mode (v06.2 id=64754CF46FCA)
Using direct disc access mode
Loaded content hash table, will verify integrity of M2TS files.
Title #00053.mpls has length of 50 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
File 00141.mpls was added as title #0
File 00800.mpls was added as title #1
File 00055.mpls was added as title #2
Title 00121.mpls is equal to title 00141.mpls and was skipped
Title #00054.mpls has length of 30 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00013.m2ts has length of 30 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00012.m2ts has length of 1 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00010.m2ts has length of 50 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00011.m2ts has length of 12 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00001.m2ts has length of 19 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00016.m2ts has length of 5 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00017.m2ts has length of 5 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00007.m2ts has length of 20 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00003.m2ts has length of 8 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
File 00004.m2ts was added as title #3
File 00009.m2ts was added as title #4
Title #00008.m2ts has length of 7 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00005.m2ts has length of 30 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
File 00015.m2ts was added as title #5
Title #00002.m2ts has length of 0 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Operation successfully completed
Saving 1 titles into directory /Users/punisher/Movies/JUSTICE_LEAGUE

nebl78
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Re: BU40N not reading all discs

Post by nebl78 » Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:39 pm

All good.
It was just the discs.
Today Tenet exchanged a new disk ran without problems.

UHD disks are very sensitive.

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