Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide Updated 2025

[ChickenFarmerMA]

whoops, typo on the name, but the stuff from here.

[Mr_Orange]

whoops, typo on the name, but the stuff from here.

Thanks for confirming.

I'll try this with my LG BH16NS55 which is cross flashed to the WH16NS60 1.02MK firmware.

[fox87]

Pretty recent (2022 October) manufacture date BH16NS55. Looks to have new/unknown firmware version "212006181342"
Flashing WH16NS60-1.02-NM00100-211810291936.bin from "all you need pack" does not seem to work.

Solved: drive was connected to SATA3G port on motherbord, reconnecting to SATA6G (different motherboard controller) allowed the flash to succeed.

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# makemkvcon f -l
Found 1 drives(s)
00: dev_21:3, /dev/sr0, /dev/sr0
  HL-DT-ST_BD-RE__BH16NS55_1.05_212006181342_REDACTED

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# makemkvcon f --info -d /dev/sr0
SDF.bin version: 0x0098
Drive Tool SDF present
Drive Specific SDF not present
Identification SDF present
[Identification SDF] Embedded Info Strings:
8000:LibreDrive Information
8013:Status
8102:Possible, not yet enabled
8001:Drive platform
:MT1959
[Identification SDF] Drive autodetect string:
mtk:19:59:JB8 :HL-DT-ST:BD-RE  BH16NS55 1.05:N001601:-

Flashing fails in both "plain" and "enc" modes with:

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# makemkvcon f -f /tmp/sdf.bin  -d /dev/sr0 rawflash enc -i /tmp/HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_WH16NS60-1.02-NM00100-211810291936.bin
Reading input file /tmp/HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_WH16NS60-1.02-NM00100-211810291936.bin
Flashing flags = 0x0 : 0 0 0 0 : ---- ---- ---- ----
Sending image in encrypted format
Current Drive ID: HL-DT-ST_BD-RE__BH16NS55_1.05_212006181342_REDACTED
Ready to write drive flash memory.
Type "yes" to continue, "no" to abort
yes
Operation started: Sending flash image to drive
Write DRAM NG 05/21/04
[b]Command produced error code 0x82052104[/b]

Always the same code. In kernel logs handshake error is reported:

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[ 2498.601845] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x400100 action 0x6 frozen
[ 2498.601858] ata4.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
[ 2498.601862] ata4: SError: { UnrecovData Handshk}
[ 2498.601870] ata4.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:40/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 23 dma 16384 out
                        Write Buffer 3b 06 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00res 50/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[ 2498.601881] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 2498.601886] ata4: hard resetting link
[ 2498.915527] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 2498.918526] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 2498.918833] ata4: EH complete

Managed to dump firmware via:

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# makemkvcon f -d /dev/sr0 dump auto -o ./
Command produced 1 file(s)
  #00: size=70Kb name=dump_user_HL-DT-ST_BD-RE__BH16NS55_1.05_212006181342_REDACTED.tar

Will try replugging to different SATA port and different cable but maybe someone else has more ideas. Can share the FW dump if its relevant.

My order of the BH16NS5 just arrived. I started makemkv and the firmware date was 20.06.2021.

I uded the SDFtool Flasher 3.6 and the dump i got was named dump_user_HL-DT-ST_BD-RE__BH16NS55_1.05_212006181342_KLZP37A3845.tar.

I realized, that the firmware there was more recent than the most recent encrypted firmware mentioned in the guide.

After i read quoted post, saying the flash was successful, i tried my luck and flashed the HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_WH16NS60-1.02-NM00100-211810291936.bin as the guide recommends for this drive.

The flash was successful, but the drive won't read any disc, neither BD nor DVD.

Have i bricked my drive or is there anything i can do to save it?

Please help. Thanks in advance.

Regards, fox.

[Coopervid]

Did you power off your PC and reboot it? Do so and post your Makemkv info.