May have screwed up a flash
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:23 pm
Good day. I have a drive which I have previously used to successfully rip UHD disks. At some point I was having problems and tried to reflash back to stock, and then ended up buying another drive. Well that other drive is having a particularly bad time with some disks, so I thought I dig the old one out, reflash it, and give it a go.
The drive is HL-DT-ST_BD-RE__BH16NS40_1.02_211312061535_K9GD5UK3833 according to makemkvcon f -l. I went to download the all in one firmware pack for LG and found that... I had already downloaded a copy in my downloads folder. Great. I then went to get SDF.bin and found the same thing. Also Great.
I moved both to a folder and ran makemkvcon f -l
I then tried to flash with this command.
Which resulted in a blank output of 2 empty lines. Turning to the forums I found people had luck downgrading makemkv to 1.17.7 for flashing. Did that, copied the binary to the same folder and ran this again and got an error.
Now I am stuck, as makemkvcon f -l now lists the drive as
And attempting the flash again results in:
Did I brick it? If not, can someone help me recover? Thanks in advance.
The drive is HL-DT-ST_BD-RE__BH16NS40_1.02_211312061535_K9GD5UK3833 according to makemkvcon f -l. I went to download the all in one firmware pack for LG and found that... I had already downloaded a copy in my downloads folder. Great. I then went to get SDF.bin and found the same thing. Also Great.
I moved both to a folder and ran makemkvcon f -l
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Found 2 drives(s)
00: dev_21:2, /dev/sr0, /dev/sr0
ASUS_BW-16D1HT_3.10_211901041014_KLZO4995610
01: dev_21:3, /dev/sr1, /dev/sr1
HL-DT-ST_BD-RE__BH16NS40_1.02_211312061535_K9GD5UK3833
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sudo makemkvcon f -d 'dev_21:3' -f sdf.bin rawflash main -i HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_WH16NS60-1.02-NM00100-211810291936.bin
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sudo ./makemkvcon f -d 'dev_21:3' -f ./sdf.bin rawflash main -i ./HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_WH16NS60-1.02-NM00100-211810291936.bin -v
Loaded SDF.bin version 0x98
Reading input file ./HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_WH16NS60-1.02-NM00100-211810291936.bin
Flashing flags = 0x0 : 0 0 0 0 : ---- ---- ---- ----
Current Drive ID: HL-DT-ST_BD-RE__BH16NS40_1.02_211312061535_K9GD5UK3833
Ready to write drive flash memory.
Type "yes" to continue, "no" to abort
yes
Operation started: Sending flash image to drive
100% Operation finished
Operation started: Programming flash
100% Operation finished
Program Flash NG status=2
Command produced error code 0x81000002
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01: dev_21:3, /dev/sr1, /dev/sr1
HL-DT-ST_BD-RE__BH16NS40_BOOT
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sudo ./makemkvcon f -d 'dev_21:3' -f ./sdf.bin rawflash main -i ./HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_WH16NS60-1.02-NM00100-211810291936.bin -v
Loaded SDF.bin version 0x98
No drive tool logic found in SDF.bin
Internal error 0x8d000000