ASUS BW-16D1HT not reading discs Win11?

[MrElussive2]

Hi Guys,

I built a new home media server and installed a Pioneer BD drive and a new ASUS BW-16D1HT. The Pioneer was one I purchased from Billycar on this forum. The BW-16D1HT ordered online and flashed to 3.10 firmware like on my previous sytem.

The Pioneer works great, but the ASUS at first would work fine with MakeMKV reading discs but now it stopped working. It would just spin up and spin up and could not be read. I tried re-flashing, and worked at first but after a few discs, no more luck. I tried reinstalling my old known working ASUS BW-16D1HT from my previous media server and same issue.

Is there some kind of issue I am not aware of? This system is running Win11 and MakeMKV whereas the previous system was running Win10.

Please lemme know if I missed anything, I will try using my old firmware enabled LG drive in place of the ASUS, in the meantime.

-Thanks!

[DoktorDread]

How do you have the drive connected, via SATA or with an external enclosure? I am on Windows 11 Pro 64-bit and am using an ASUS BW-16D1HT inside the Vantec enclosure with zero issues. Hell, I am ripping my 4k copy of the Chernobyl mini-series as I type this and I saw the read rate peak at 7.7x on the first disc, which is a BD-100 according to blu-ray.com. I didn't even think that was possible

[dcoke22]

Drives like the ASUS (with LG innards) occasionally get confused and they need to be rebooted. The easiest way to do this is to remove power, wait a few moments, and then power it up again. If the drive is in an external enclosure, it is easy to do. If the drive is installed inside a computer, you'd have to power it down, maybe unplug it, then boot it up again.

I'm sure you don't want to have to power down your media server regularly… so moving the drive to an external enclosure might be useful.