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How could I dump this rare FW from HL MT1959 drive?
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2024 2:44 am
by Sphyblk22
Long story short, I recently got this Amethystum OEM drive (BH-A10AME) from HL, which is based on MT1959 platform with 1.03 ROM.
Not only it supports quality scanning, but it could also burn 100GB Amethystum discs (these discs were made by Mitsubishi, but implements some sort of vendor lock which only allow layer switching for drives with Amethystum-specific FW during burning, that's why they became dirt cheap).
I wanted to do a FW dump of this and share it with you guys, but my drive was made in 2020, so its FW was encrypted. Reading the FW in SDFtool only dumps cal data. I read in another thread that dev could do a full FW dump from these newer drives. If anyone could help me with that, it would be very appreciated.
p.s. Alternatively, one could get their hands on BH-A10AME drives made in 2019 with 1.00 or 1.01 ROM, which might not be encrypted. However, there aren't any currently in sale, also from what I've heard the seller usually flash them to 1.03 anyway.
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Re: How could I dump this rare FW from HL MT1959 drive?
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2024 4:16 am
by Billycar11
Sphyblk22 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2024 2:44 am
Long story short, I recently got this Amethystum OEM drive (BH-A10AME) from HL, which is based on MT1959 platform with 1.03 ROM.
Not only it supports quality scanning, but it could also burn 100GB Amethystum discs (these discs were made by Mitsubishi, but implements some sort of vendor lock which only allow layer switching for drives with Amethystum-specific FW during burning, that's why they became dirt cheap).
I wanted to do a FW dump of this and share it with you guys, but my drive was made in 2020, so its FW was encrypted. Reading the FW in SDFtool only dumps cal data. I read in another thread that dev could do a full FW dump from these newer drives. If anyone could help me with that, it would be very appreciated.
p.s. Alternatively, one could get their hands on BH-A10AME drives made in 2019 with 1.00 or 1.01 ROM, which might not be encrypted. However, there aren't any currently in sale, also from what I've heard the seller usually flash them to 1.03 anyway.
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you can email mike he can remote dump them not sure if he will but its a possibility
support@makemkv.com
Re: How could I dump this rare FW from HL MT1959 drive?
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:48 am
by stron
Sphyblk22 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2024 2:44 am
Long story short, I recently got this Amethystum OEM drive (BH-A10AME) from HL, which is based on MT1959 platform with 1.03 ROM.
Not only it supports quality scanning, but it could also burn 100GB Amethystum discs (these discs were made by Mitsubishi, but implements some sort of vendor lock which only allow layer switching for drives with Amethystum-specific FW during burning, that's why they became dirt cheap).
I wanted to do a FW dump of this and share it with you guys, but my drive was made in 2020, so its FW was encrypted. Reading the FW in SDFtool only dumps cal data. I read in another thread that dev could do a full FW dump from these newer drives. If anyone could help me with that, it would be very appreciated.
p.s. Alternatively, one could get their hands on BH-A10AME drives made in 2019 with 1.00 or 1.01 ROM, which might not be encrypted. However, there aren't any currently in sale, also from what I've heard the seller usually flash them to 1.03 anyway.
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Don't know whether this is helpful, but this drive (BH-A10AME AAMU101) is also sold on
a Chinese platform. The merchant claims it has the same hardware as ASUS BW-16D1HT. From the photos it seems like the drive was manufactured by Hitachi in 2020.
Re: How could I dump this rare FW from HL MT1959 drive?
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 5:09 am
by stron
What's more interesting is that I found
another merchant selling the same product, and he claims he could flash makemkv into this drive and it has support for UHD and 100G BD disk writing.
Re: How could I dump this rare FW from HL MT1959 drive?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 3:31 pm
by sumsethan
got one BH-A10AME drive labled "manufactured in 2019 , 1.01 ROM" ，but the actual rom version is " T.24",and rom cmoplied in year "2121".
seems like it was flashd to a new rom as well
tried dump FW with SDFtool but only got a 72kB file
encrypted rom too?
Re: How could I dump this rare FW from HL MT1959 drive?
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:12 am
by sumsethan
So Pity. 1.02 ROM is encrypted too.
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FW dumps (if it helps