I have all 3 of them. My recommendation - go with the Asus.
Hi,
I bought the asus drive and it displays below information -
Drive Information
OS device name: G:
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: BW-16D1HT
Revision: 3.11
Serial number: ***
Firmware date: 2120-12-01 17:59
Bus encryption flags: 1F
LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible, not yet enabled
Drive platform: MT1959
No disc inserted
Should I flash it or not as it says possible not yet enabled....
If you want to enable LibreDrive and/or rip UHD discs, then yes, it must be flashed.
Can you please point to the exact steps, I am searching the forum but not getting anyone who has mentioned the steps with firmware 3.11
Ps. Yes I want to make it uhd friendly.
Last edited by kiranmehta on Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:00 am, edited 1 time in total.
I bought the asus drive and it displays below information -
Drive Information
OS device name: G:
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: BW-16D1HT
Revision: 3.11
Serial number: KLLNBJB5228
Firmware date: 2120-12-01 17:59
Bus encryption flags: 1F
LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible, not yet enabled
Drive platform: MT1959
No disc inserted
Should I flash it or not as it says possible not yet enabled....
If you want to enable LibreDrive and/or rip UHD discs, then yes, it must be flashed.
Can you please point to the exact steps, I am searching the forum but not getting anyone who has mentioned the steps with firmware 3.11
Ps. Yes I want to make it uhd friendly.
Go to the SDFtool Flasher thread and follow the first post.
If you don't care about writing discs, flash it directly to WH16NS60 1.02-MK firmware. If you do plan on writing discs occasionally, flash it directly to BW-16D1HT 3.10-MK firmware.
Cheers
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If you want to enable LibreDrive and/or rip UHD discs, then yes, it must be flashed.
Can you please point to the exact steps, I am searching the forum but not getting anyone who has mentioned the steps with firmware 3.11
Ps. Yes I want to make it uhd friendly.
Go to the SDFtool Flasher thread and follow the first post.
If you don't care about writing discs, flash it directly to WH16NS60 1.02-MK firmware. If you do plan on writing discs occasionally, flash it directly to BW-16D1HT 3.10-MK firmware.
Thank you for quick reply and resolution.
My drive arrived today and I'll be getting my first 4k uhd disc in 2-3 days will flash it then and will keep updated
If you want to enable LibreDrive and/or rip UHD discs, then yes, it must be flashed.
Can you please point to the exact steps, I am searching the forum but not getting anyone who has mentioned the steps with firmware 3.11
Ps. Yes I want to make it uhd friendly.
Go to the SDFtool Flasher thread and follow the first post.
If you don't care about writing discs, flash it directly to WH16NS60 1.02-MK firmware. If you do plan on writing discs occasionally, flash it directly to BW-16D1HT 3.10-MK firmware.
Hi i got my joker 4k bluray and uhd disc today and was able to rip it ootb without flashing, however when flashing to make it uhd friendly i am getting below error
Just bought an external BD drive before reading this and I was wondering if there was a place I can send my firmware dump for checking?
I wanted to ask before just throwing attachments to the forum on my first post.
Just bought an external BD drive before reading this and I was wondering if there was a place I can send my firmware dump for checking?
I wanted to ask before just throwing attachments to the forum on my first post.
Drive shows as: HL-DT-ST_BD-RE__WH16NS58 and I
There is a MK version for NS58 in the firmware pack but you can also flash it straight to BH16NS60 1.02 which works better for 3-layer discs. I have a NS58 firmware on one of my drives to do disc quality checks for burned media with Vinpower VPTools / qxptools. If you are only interested in ripping discs, flash BH16NS60 firmware.
Dear experts,
I have bought a new BU40N drive and wasn't able to flash it with the command line or de SDFtool Flasher 1.3.5
The command line throughs an error:
.\makemkvcon64.exe f --all-yes -d G: rawflash enc -i c:\temp\makemkv\HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BU40N-1.03-NM00000-211810241934.bin
No drive tool logic found in SDF.bin
Internal error 0x8d000000
The SFDtool flasher simply does nothing:
It doesn't dump the current firmware and refuses to flash the 1.03 firmware. It recognizes drive still.
Drive Information
OS device name: G:
Manufacturer: HL-DT-ST
Product: BD-RE BU40N
Revision: 1.04
Serial number: MOENC6I3954
Firmware date: 2120-05-06 11:42
Bus encryption flags: 17
Highest AACS version: 77
LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible (with patched firmware)
Drive platform: MT1959
Harware support: Yes
Firmware support: No
Firmware type: Original (patched version available)
Firmware version: 1.04
DVD all regions: Possible (with patched firmware)
BD raw data read: Possible (with patched firmware)
BD raw metadata read: Possible (with patched firmware)
Unrestricted read speed: Possible (with patched firmware)