Unable to flash ASUS BW-16D1X-U A105 (MT1959 platform)

[CiroZ]

Seeking assistance to flash my drive, Has the correct platform to be libre enabled.

Currently SDFtool Flasher reports flash done successfully, when power cycling drive though, no change(Still A105).

Have attempted flashing with both ASUS-BW-16D1HT-3.10 and WH16NS60 1.02 with no luck. Do I have an encrypted firmware? Do I need to attempt this manually (Command line withough GUI)? Appreciate any guidance on how to proceed.

I did send my firmware dump(what I could get), here it is linked through MEGA if this is helpful/worthwhile

Creating a new thread as I see no one else has posted about A105 Asus Firmware.

[MartyMcNuts]

Seeking assistance to flash my drive, Has the correct platform to be libre enabled.

Currently SDFtool Flasher reports flash done successfully, when power cycling drive though, no change(Still A105).

Have attempted flashing with both ASUS-BW-16D1HT-3.10 and WH16NS60 1.02 with no luck. Do I have an encrypted firmware? Do I need to attempt this manually (Command line withough GUI)? Appreciate any guidance on how to proceed.

I did send my firmware dump(what I could get), here it is linked through MEGA if this is helpful/worthwhile

Creating a new thread as I see no one else has posted about A105 Asus Firmware.

I have a feeling that A105 is pretty new and may be encrypted. In SDFtool flasher, click on the red "X" next to Ëncrypted Firmware" to toggle the encrypted firmware flag and try flashing the WH16NS60 1.02-MK firmware again.

[dcoke22]

Did you see this thread: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=24990

The OP in that thread had the A104 firmware version.

[CiroZ]

Yes I have read through it a number of times, the solution was to check the encrypted firmware box, then it flashed and I am on my 3rd UHD disk ripping now.

Now I need to figure out concatenating multiple MKVs (Disc 1 and disc 2).
And finalize AV1 settings for encoding these.

[MartyMcNuts]

Yes I have read through it a number of times, the solution was to check the encrypted firmware box, then it flashed and I am on my 3rd UHD disk ripping now.

Now I need to figure out concatenating multiple MKVs (Disc 1 and disc 2).
And finalize AV1 settings for encoding these.

MKVtoolnix is good for concatenating. I use nvencc64 (command line) for encoding using my RTX 2070.

[dcoke22]

Now I need to figure out concatenating multiple MKVs (Disc 1 and disc 2).

If your playback setup is with Plex, it supports a movie split across multiple files.

Otherwise, MartyMcNuts's suggestion of MKVToolNix is a good one.

If you really want to do AV1 hardware encoding, I think only the 4000 series Nvidia cards or the new Intel Arc cards can do it. I think the AMD RX7000 cards will be able to do it. I wonder what streamer-boxes support AV1 playback?

[sdhedrick]

Thank you all. This article worked for my exact same ASUS external drive. (purchased Sept. 2023).

Only diff is that I didn't run into that encryption issue above (Flashing ASUS-BW-16D1HT-3.10-WM01601-211901041014.bin). Maybe that was an update with 1.3.5 flashing tool?