LibreDrive for Pioneer drives

Discussion of LibreDrive mode, compatible drives and firmwares
Coopervid
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Re: LibreDrive for Pioneer drives

Post by Coopervid »

I just saw that your drive has 2023 firmware. So you can't flash. Sorry that I missed that.
TheGame21x
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Re: LibreDrive for Pioneer drives

Post by TheGame21x »

nicholfd wrote:
Fri Nov 07, 2025 9:50 pm
TheGame21x wrote:
Fri Nov 07, 2025 9:45 pm

Yes, I'm on Windows 10. I can try using VMWare. the firmware I received was for the BDR-211, will that work for my 209M drive? Thanks for the help!
I don't think he was indicating a VM improves the process - just that if you are using a VM, the settings of the virtualization app/virtual machine may cause issues.

I exclusively use macOS as my primary computer OS. I have never had a failure with MakeMKV/flashing tools in Windows 10 & 11 VMs, on UTM (Free/Open Source), vmWare Fusion & Parallels. Due to licensing & what I own, I often switch between Win 10/11 VMs on all three virtualization apps, when working with/flashing optical drives that require Windows.

Thanks,
Frank
Hmm, that's odd then. I can try running the flasher again but I'm still not sure what went wrong.
TheGame21x
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Re: LibreDrive for Pioneer drives

Post by TheGame21x »

Coopervid wrote:
Fri Nov 07, 2025 10:12 pm
I just saw that your drive has 2023 firmware. So you can't flash. Sorry that I missed that.
Oh, damn. I thought I saw an update that allowed me to flash on 1.55 firmware but I guess not. Thanks anyway. I'll keep waiting.
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