How could I dump this rare FW from HL MT1959 drive?
Posted: 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.
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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