Weird ASUS BW-16D1X-U Behavior?

[abusecylo]

....though it's probably something I'm doing wrong....

Please excuse any etiquette transgressions, I’ve never posted to an MakeMKV forum. I purchased the ‘never expire’ software license a couple years ago after enjoying the program with no problems. Thank you for everything you’re doing to keep this up, and hope the recent forum outage wasn’t too painful.

I bought an external ASUS BW-16D1X-U drive to use alongside my existing slimline Pioneer bdr-xd05s external drive. I’ve used the Pioneer successfully with MakeMKV many times. No UHD disks involved, just plain BD. No flashing. My computer is a basic box with Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows dual boot.

Something weird is happening. MakeMKV can see and use both external drives to rip BD disks fine with Windows booted, which I don’t like using. But the ASUS won’t rip when Linux is booted, which I prefer. It never completes the "Scanning CD-ROM devices" step. The Pioneer continues to work fine regardless of which side is booted up. The ASUS does play BD discs on the Linux side, and will even allow Linux's Brasero to do its thing with a BD to create a playable ISO file. It just isn’t working with MakeMKV.

Any ideas? A side question pertains to the “Status: Possible, not yet enabled” line (see below). I’ve never flashed anything, though I don’t mind trying to if that’s a solution even though I don’t ever see myself working with UHD disks, I don’t have any TV screens that can make use of the higher resolution.

Thanks for any suggestions. Here’s the MakeMKV data from the ASUS drive, taken from the Windows version.

Drive Information
OS device name: F:
Current profile: BD-ROM
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: BW-16D1X-U
Revision: A105
Serial number:
Firmware date: 2120-12-02 11:14
Bus encryption flags: 1F
Highest AACS version: 76

LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible, not yet enabled
Drive platform: MT1959

[abusecylo]

Update: I saw some old posts about similar issues, resolved by downgrading the MakeMKV version to 1.17.7. I tried it and that worked. So for now, problem solved.

[cjcox4]

Guesses, I don't have your device, but had problems yesterday (or was it the day before?).

The makemkv forum site was wonky, like mostly down.

Version 1.18.3 would just "spin" on trying to scan the bluray. Based on yours and others post, I also installed 1.17.7 (1.17.8 had same problem as 1.18.3). I'm using openSUSE Leap 16.0.

Version 1.17.7 worked for me...

However, makemkv "fixed" (I use that term very very very loosely) their forum.makemkv.com website problem and suddenly 1.18.3 is working for me today. My guess is that extra "creative ware" (read into that what you will) became a part of 1.17.8 and higher.

Anyway, I have things default to 1.17.7, which seems more resilient and possibly less "creative" in doing things you probably don't want the software doing (?). But, I do have 1.18.3 as well... I may check it from time to time, especially if the forum.makemkv.com sites goes wonky again (to see if it breaks 1.18.3).

With all that said, another change I made was disabling IPv6. So, it's possible that is what truly made 1.18.3 etc. work today. Not sure.