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Drive making funny noises
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 6:33 pm
by Daskew78
Hi,
I've got the WH14NS40 in an external Icy Boy enclosure.
When it's ripping everything is fine. But if the drive has a disk in it and i'm not doing anything with it, it makes like a grinding noise trying to read the disk.
The only way to stop it is to eject the disk and close it again. Windows reads it fine again and I can rip from the drive. But do nothing for a few minutes and it goes back to square one and keeps trying to read disk making a funny noise.
Is this normal because it's been flashed?
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:12 pm
by d00zah
This, my friend, is the infamous 'sleep bug'. Until a FW fix arrives, DON'T leave discs in an idle drive. Or try earplugs.
The former is advised.
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:14 pm
by Daskew78
Ahh a bug... is it actually doing the drive or disk any harm?
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:21 pm
by d00zah
Dunno. Haven't read any 'horror stories' attributable (YMMV) to it. @jonghotti , @MartyMcNuts , @Billycar11 traffic in volumes of these affected drives. Gentlemen?
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:22 pm
by jonghotti
d00zah wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:12 pm
This, my friend, is the infamous 'sleep bug'. Until a FW fix arrives, DON'T leave discs in an idle drive. Or try earplugs.
The former is advised.
Yes, the former.
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:36 am
by Billycar11
d00zah wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:21 pm
Dunno. Haven't read any 'horror stories' attributable (YMMV) to it. @jonghotti , @MartyMcNuts , @Billycar11 traffic in volumes of these affected drives. Gentlemen?
Almost all drives I sell now have the sleepbug fix. I haven't seen any harm from it but it does not sound good and it is annoying to have to eject the disk to read it again
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:38 am
by Daskew78
Billycar11 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:36 am
d00zah wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:21 pm
Dunno. Haven't read any 'horror stories' attributable (YMMV) to it. @jonghotti , @MartyMcNuts , @Billycar11 traffic in volumes of these affected drives. Gentlemen?
Almost all drives I sell now have the sleepbug fix. I haven't seen any harm from it but it does not sound good and it is annoying to have to eject the disk to read it again
Sleepbug fix? There's a fix for it?
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 5:22 am
by Billycar11
Daskew78 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:38 am
Sleepbug fix? There's a fix for it?
Yeah
buy a drive from me lol to get it.
But jk I posted how to do it here:
https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 16&t=19634
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 5:38 am
by Daskew78
Okay this is where I went massively wrong in my other topic and needed your help to recover the drive so I'd like to check first before I do it if that is okay?
I have the I have the "LG WH14NS40, UHD Friendly Internal 5.25" drive in an Icy Box External Enclosure. Am I reading the guide correct in that I should flash it with the firmware for the "LG WH16NS60, UHD Official Internal 5.25" drive? If so, where do I get that official firmware from and which version do I need?
The guide also points out the following:
"1. Make sure your Drive was built after 2015"
How can I check this?
"2. Drive Platform MT1959<Most important"
I am not sure what this is asking or telling me?
"3. SVC NS50+ LG only"
Again, I am not sure what this is asking or telling me?
Once I have all the tools, I just flash it with a WinPE disk?
Thanks.
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:07 am
by Billycar11
Daskew78 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 5:38 am
Okay this is where I went massively wrong in my other topic and needed your help to recover the drive so I'd like to check first before I do it if that is okay?
I have the I have the "LG WH14NS40, UHD Friendly Internal 5.25" drive in an Icy Box External Enclosure. Am I reading the guide correct in that I should flash it with the firmware for the "LG WH16NS60, UHD Official Internal 5.25" drive? If so, where do I get that official firmware from and which version do I need?
The guide also points out the following:
"1. Make sure your Drive was built after 2015"
How can I check this?
"2. Drive Platform MT1959<Most important"
I am not sure what this is asking or telling me?
"3. SVC NS50+ LG only"
Again, I am not sure what this is asking or telling me?
Once I have all the tools, I just flash it with a WinPE disk?
Thanks.
1. It's on drive label
2. In makemkv drive info
3. Drive label again
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:20 am
by Daskew78
Thanks for that, all 3 check out fine.
So can you confirm I flash it with the LG WH16NS60, UHD Official Internal 5.25 firmware please?
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:39 am
by Billycar11
Daskew78 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:20 am
Thanks for that, all 3 check out fine.
So can you confirm I flash it with the LG WH16NS60, UHD Official Internal 5.25 firmware please?
I have done it 100s of times
If your unsure just leave it. You have a working uhd drive
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:43 am
by Daskew78
I want to fix it but you're not answering my questions mate...
I've no idea which firmware to flash the drive and if I should use the MK firmware or not?
Also the firmware in the video link to download will not download. There's a network error each time I try. I've tried 20x times so I cannot get any of the firmwares.
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:46 am
by Daskew78
Actually it was my virus protection not allowing the download, I have it now.
If you can just confirm the correct firmware to flash I can do it.
Thanks.
Re: Drive making funny noises
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:49 am
by Daskew78
I think it is this one but not sure:
DE_flash_HL-DT-ST_BD-RE_WH16NS40_1.02_NS50