Is my pioneer BDR-XD05s flashable?

[lizardrobot]

Greetings!

This forum has been extremely helpful in the past. Thank you all for your contributions.

I've discovered from this thread that my BDR-XD05S drive might be flash-able to read UHD discs consistently. I've been able to read some (a German Dune boxset worked fine, for example) but the recent Arrow version of The Andromeda Strain wouldn't read.

One hitch is that I'm Mac-only at home, and I've read that Windows virtual machines won't work for flashing drives. I'm comfortable with the command-line, and have Wine running on my Mac. Is there any hope of flashing my drive without borrowing a Windows PC? I could connect the drive to my Ubuntu home server.

EDIT:

I should post my drive info in case this clarifies things.
I saw instructions in another thread that there are Mac steps for firmware flash, but the Everything Firmware does seem to include Pioneer drives. So I'm confused. Lol. I'll keep reading!

Drive Information
Manufacturer: PIONEER
Product: BD-RW BDR-XD05
Revision: 3.01
Serial number: redacted
Firmware date: 2014-12-26
Bus encryption flags: 1B
Highest AACS version: 81

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: RS8231
Firmware name: PIONEER BDR-XD05
Firmware type: Original (unpatched)
Firmware version: 3.01/ID34
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yes

[Coopervid]

Greetings!

This forum has been extremely helpful in the past. Thank you all for your contributions.

I've discovered from this thread that my BDR-XD05S drive might be flash-able to read UHD discs consistently. I've been able to read some (a German Dune boxset worked fine, for example) but the recent Arrow version of The Andromeda Strain wouldn't read.

One hitch is that I'm Mac-only at home, and I've read that Windows virtual machines won't work for flashing drives. I'm comfortable with the command-line, and have Wine running on my Mac. Is there any hope of flashing my drive without borrowing a Windows PC? I could connect the drive to my Ubuntu home server.

EDIT:

I should post my drive info in case this clarifies things.
I saw instructions in another thread that there are Mac steps for firmware flash, but the Everything Firmware does seem to include Pioneer drives. So I'm confused. Lol. I'll keep reading!

Drive Information
Manufacturer: PIONEER
Product: BD-RW BDR-XD05
Revision: 3.01
Serial number: redacted
Firmware date: 2014-12-26
Bus encryption flags: 1B
Highest AACS version: 81

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: RS8231
Firmware name: PIONEER BDR-XD05
Firmware type: Original (unpatched)
Firmware version: 3.01/ID34
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yes

You NEED a Windows PC or a good VM with Windows. Parallels or VMWare should do it. PM sent.

[juggling309]

Hi,

I'd love to flash my drive. Would it be possible ?

Drive Information
Manufacturer: PIONEER
Product: BD-RW BDR-XD05
Revision: 3.10
Firmware date: 2017-06-22
Bus encryption flags: 1B
Highest AACS version: 81

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: RS8231
Firmware name: PIONEER BDR-XD05
Firmware type: Original (unpatched)
Firmware version: 3.01/ID34
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yes

Best regards.

[Billycar11]

Hi,

I'd love to flash my drive. Would it be possible ?

Drive Information
Manufacturer: PIONEER
Product: BD-RW BDR-XD05
Revision: 3.10
Firmware date: 2017-06-22
Bus encryption flags: 1B
Highest AACS version: 81

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: RS8231
Firmware name: PIONEER BDR-XD05
Firmware type: Original (unpatched)
Firmware version: 3.01/ID34
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yes

Best regards.

Yes can be flashed email me that drive info section see below for email