Newbie assistance needed please

[SpencerC]

Hello there!

I'm fairly new to MakeMKV and am over a month into ripping my DVD/Bluray collection. I've been having a lot of success with the bluray drive I bought, which is an LG BP60NB10. This drive straight out of the box was able to rip a vast majority of the disks thus far. For the disks that kept failing, I read that a firmware update would help things and I was apprehensive to mess with the firmware out of fear of bricking the drive. So, I found an ASUS SBW-06D5H-U and ordered it because it was advertised that it wouldn't need any firmware updates. This drive was also failing on the same disks that were failing with the LG drive and it looks like it also needs a firmware update. I was able to update the firmware on the LG drive and now it says that the Libredrive is now enabled and I was able to rip some of those failing disks, but I still have a stack of disks that are failing. I'd like to try updating the firmware on the ASUS drive but cannot find where to download the firmware or any documented steps. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm running a combination of Win10/11 on different computers used for ripping, I don't know if that matters or not.

Thank you in advance!

SpencerC

[tomty89]

ASUS drives are relabeled LG or Pioneer. You need to post the LibreDrive information from MakeMKV for someone to be able to help you out.

[SpencerC]

ASUS drives are relabeled LG or Pioneer. You need to post the LibreDrive information from MakeMKV for someone to be able to help you out.

Thank you! Here is the info from MakeMKV.

Libre info.png

[tomty89]

Please post it as text. The image doesn't show up (at least not for me).

[SpencerC]

Thanks again. Sorry that didn't show up, maybe it didn't like the png file format. Anyway, hopefully this gives the needed info.

Drive Information
OS device name: F:
Current profile: DVD-ROM
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: SBW-06D5H-U
Revision: A102
Serial number: MO6O68G1156
Firmware date: 2124-08-05 14:55
Bus encryption flags: 1F
Highest AACS version: 21

LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible, not yet enabled
Drive platform: MT1959

Disc Information
Label: MI5_S3_Disk1
Timestamp: 2008-10-17 19:18:35
Data capacity: 4.36 Gb
Disc type: DVD-R
Disc size: 120mm
Number of layers: 1 (PTP)

[tomty89]

If you want to simply flash it into a LibreDrive, check out the guide (viewtopic.php?t=19634) and treat it as a LG BU40N.

Otherwise you'll have to be more specific than just "failing" for any potential help.

[SpencerC]

If you want to simply flash it into a LibreDrive, check out the guide (viewtopic.php?t=19634) and treat it as a LG BU40N.

Otherwise you'll have to be more specific than just "failing" for any potential help.

Thanks! That is exactly the info I was looking for. I had found that forum topic but couldn't identify my drive and now you have done that for me. Thank you very much! Is there some sort of spreadsheet somewhere that translates the manufacturers model number to the real model number that makemkv has firmware for? For example, I also have a Dell USB DVD drive that I seriously doubt Dell actually makes and probably repackages as its own, just like that ASUS drive you translated the real model for me. Right now, I want to flash the firmware first to see how many of my "failing" disks that resolves. I'm guessing there are issues with many of the disks, but I feel step one is to flash. Thank you again!!