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I am trying to backup firmware from my drive under Debian 12/MakeMKV 1.17.8

# Lists all available drives Found 1 drives(s)
00: dev_21:0, /dev/sr0, /dev/sr0
PIONEER_BD-RW___BDR-UD04_1.14_XyXyXyXyXyXy


# Dump drive firmware Found sdf.bin version 0x98 at /home/rai4321/.MakeMKV/_private_data.tar
Loaded SDF.bin version 0x98
Found drive-specific logic in SDF.bin
Using (non-existing) config file at /home/rai4321/.libdriveio/sdf.conf

but nothing much happened for past 20min ...

Why do you want to do that?

As a first sdftool is only used to flash LG / ASUS drives. It also doesn't make a useful firmware backup for these drives.

Secondly Makemkv produces a firmware dump for Pioneer drives BUT only if Makemkv finds a firmware that is unknown to it.

I am playing around with what the tools that come part of MakeMKV can do,
and just wanted to back up the firmware if I can ..... on the drive ....

Thanx for the info

And don't even think about flashing new Pioneer firmware to this drive!!! You would lose the UHD capability. I sense that you are screwing with everything these days. Don't do stupid stuff! Ask in the forum before you do so!