Using ASUS BW-16D1HT, no need to flash drive to rip 4K discs

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hijak
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Using ASUS BW-16D1HT, no need to flash drive to rip 4K discs

Post by hijak »

Firstly, I say hi to you all. Been using MakeMKV for about 2 years now, so have frequented this forum fairly often, am familiar with some usernames here, but this is my first post or comment.

To cut a long story short, I bought a BW-16D1HT, placed inside a OWC Mercury Pro about 12 months ago. I could never properly test a 4K disc with this drive because I had a Mac mini 2012 which just wasn't up to par (problems with H.265, ok when it's H.264). But I've recently purchased a Mac Mini M1, and also got hold of some 4K discs. I already spent a few hours last year looking through posts here to comprehend how to flash my drive to rip UHD successfully. However, when I placed the 4K disc in the drive, and opened MakeMKV, I had no problem in ripping the main movie from the disc, and no problem making a backup of the disc. (Unfortunately I can't play the disc because I don't know any software that can play 4K discs on a Mac.)

I recently ripped a few discs with no problem so far. An 80GB disc took a little under an hour to copy. What problems am I supposed to be encountering, or am likely to encounter by ripping UHD discs without flashing my drive? Something to do with discs getting stuck in drives? I left a disc in the drive for 24 hours, and had no problem in accessing/ripping that disc, or ejecting the disc.

PS
this is a 2nd hand drive, Im not sure what year it was manufactured, I presume 2015, as the firmware date 2115-11-03 seems to be an error.

Drive Information
OS device name: /dev/rdisk14

Current profile: BD-ROM

Manufacturer: ASUS

Product: BW-16D1HT

Revision: 3.00

Serial number: XXXXXXXXXXXX

Firmware date: 2115-11-03 11:10

Bus encryption flags: 1F

Highest AACS version: 76



LibreDrive Information

Status: Enabled

Drive platform: MT1959

Firmware type: Original (unpatched)

Firmware version: 3.00

DVD all regions: Yes

BD raw data read: Yes

BD raw metadata read: Yes

Unrestricted read speed: Yes



Disc Information

Label: THE HOBBIT AUJ EXT

Timestamp: 2020-09-17 21:24:31

Data capacity: 77.57 Gb

Disc type: BD-ROM UHD

Number of layers: 3

Bus encryption flags: 80
Billycar11
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Re: Using ASUS BW-16D1HT, no need to flash drive to rip 4K discs

Post by Billycar11 »

You got lucky and got an old drive that's all has the old firmware
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hijak
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Re: Using ASUS BW-16D1HT, no need to flash drive to rip 4K discs

Post by hijak »

It's certainly a bonus, the drive only cost £40 on eBay, and being a Mac user I wasn't looking forward to flashing it.

But don't you guys downgrade later models to 3.10? AFAIKT 3.0 works just fine. Is the sleep bug just a PC thing?
Billycar11
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Re: Using ASUS BW-16D1HT, no need to flash drive to rip 4K discs

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hijak wrote:
Fri Mar 19, 2021 9:47 am
It's certainly a bonus, the drive only cost £40 on eBay, and being a Mac user I wasn't looking forward to flashing it.

But don't you guys downgrade later models to 3.10? AFAIKT 3.0 works just fine. Is the sleep bug just a PC thing?
The sleep bug is a friendly drive thing the only drives that don't have the sleep bug are official drives or ones flashed to them it will happen on your Mac.

The main reason I recommend 3.10 is so it is only 1 flash
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Re: Using ASUS BW-16D1HT, no need to flash drive to rip 4K discs

Post by jonghotti »

Good job on scoring a "classic" drive!
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hijak
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Re: Using ASUS BW-16D1HT, no need to flash drive to rip 4K discs

Post by hijak »

Thanks for your replies. :)
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