[Resolved] Issues applying LibreDrive firmware to BW-16D1HT 3.11
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 12:15 am
For the past several years I've been rather successfully using an ASUS BW-16D1HT for the purpose of ripping DVD/Blurays with MakeMKV. This past week, however the drive opted to give up the ghost (and refuse to read any Blurays whilst being quite content with DVDs), so I bought a new one. The drive is reported by MakeMKV as follows:
However, in its present state MakeMKV doesn't want to read any Blurays, which has led me down (a very murky) memory lane regarding LibreDrive. The end result being I recall doing something when I first got the original drive, but am now needing to relearn everything all over again. By pouring over these forums (mainly thanks to this, this, and this) I think I've figured out what I need to do. I've downloaded the mk-firmware-pack and tried applying the LibreDrive (compatible) firmware by running the command
This however, only results in two empty lines being printed to the command line, and nothing else. I don't think that this is an operation that should take overly long, and even leaving it there for 15 mins or more, there is no change. After some digging I'm seeing that there seems to be an issue with 1.17.8 (which is coincidentally what I have installed), and upgrading to 1.17.9 doesn't appear to offer any respite from what I'm reading. Only a downgrade to 1.17.7 appears to have any hope of "fixing" this hang.
So at this point I would have two questions:
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Drive Information
OS device name: /dev/sr0
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: BW-16D1HT
Revision: 3.11
Serial number: ...
Firmware date: 2120-12-01 17:59
Bus encryption flags: 1F
Highest AACS version: 76
LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible, not yet enabled
Drive platform: MT1959
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sudo makemkvcon f -f sdf_00000098.bin -d /dev/sr0 rawflash enc -i ASUS-BW-16D1HT-3.10-WM01601-211901041014.bin
So at this point I would have two questions:
- Am I approaching the flashing process correctly? While it doesn't appear to be doing anything for me (at the moment), is my underlying approach sound given the drive that I have?
- Where can I find the 1.17.7 so that I can downgrade? I've tried
but that just reports a 404 error.
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wget https://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv-bin-1.17.7.tar.gz wget https://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv-oss-1.17.7.tar.gz