Drive Firmware not Updating

[dinasty23]

Hi there,

I recently purchased an LG WP50NB40 as a disk drive for my plex server running on a Pop_OS! machine, and I'd like to make it a LibreDrive. According to MakeMkv, this is possible, and I've followed these Linux forums, and as far as I can tell have successfully flashed HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N-1.03-NM00000-211810241934.bin to the drive using

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sdftool -d /dev/sr1 rawflash -i HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N-1.03-NM00000-211810241934.bin

. The output from my terminal has been added as an attachment. However, when I go into MakeMkv after this, it states that Libre Drive is still not enabled. I've tried rebuilding MakeMkv from source post patch, as well as attempting to patch with HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N-1.03-NM00000-211810241934.bin and HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BP60NB10-1.02-NM00800-212005070935.bin. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

output from terminal

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[Billycar11]

Hi there,

I recently purchased an LG WP50NB40 as a disk drive for my plex server running on a Pop_OS! machine, and I'd like to make it a LibreDrive. According to MakeMkv, this is possible, and I've followed these Linux forums, and as far as I can tell have successfully flashed HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N-1.03-NM00000-211810241934.bin to the drive using

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sdftool -d /dev/sr1 rawflash -i HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N-1.03-NM00000-211810241934.bin

. The output from my terminal has been added as an attachment. However, when I go into MakeMkv after this, it states that Libre Drive is still not enabled. I've tried rebuilding MakeMkv from source post patch, as well as attempting to patch with HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N-1.03-NM00000-211810241934.bin and HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BP60NB10-1.02-NM00800-212005070935.bin. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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post your full drive info and
read the guide
you may have encrypted fw and need enc and you need to use HBD fw to convert to bp 60

[dinasty23]

Here is my full drive info:

drive description from MakeMkv

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What do you mean by "use HBD fw to convert to bp 60"? Thanks for the quick response!

[Billycar11]

This part of guide is likely relavant BP50NB40-NB50-1.03MK with enc > BP50NB40-NB50-1.03MK with bootloader/full flash > BP60NB10 1.00_HBD from Marty download/file.php?id=2143
if using command line add "full" after rawflash

[dinasty23]

The enc keyword did the trick! Thanks for your help.