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how's it goin everyone. thank you for the forum and the abilities. I just purchased an lg wh16ns60 (cross flashed wh14ns40). I'm looking to use it with the omni drive flash. ive gotten this far, but I'm having an issue finding the SDFtool Flasher or which to use. further I'm going to accomplish this with win 11, but m also curious how i would do it with Linux, i run cachyos for a lab and bazzite for my rig. anyway i was hoping someone had a good recent write up or even if someone wanted to coach me with the process. thanks

There's no special flasher for OmniDrive firmware. You don't need one.

"SDFTool Flasher", aka the GUI wrapper of sdftool is Windows only. (Maybe it can be made to work through wine but IIRC it's a .NET program so it could be a bit of a hassle -- my wine knowledge is old though.) I think you can use it to flash the OmniDrive firmware (if it works for your drive) too, since it's just a wrapper of sdftool and OmniDrive is just stock ASUS/LG firmware with a bit of modifcations, similar to MK firmware.

The CLI sdftool as a part of MakeMKV is available on Linux though. And it is at least currently the recommended tool for flashing OmniDrive.

I don't think you need any special "process" or "write up" if your drive is already flashed with an MK firmware. You should be able to just flash OmniDrive without any special instructions / arguments. There is information on http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=OmniDrive though (but it seems to be down at the moment.)

The Wayback Machine is your friend : https://web.archive.org/web/20260616010 ... =OmniDrive

So, because your drive is not a slim drive, I believe you need to flash this firmware : https://archive.org/download/OmniDrive_ ... iDrive.bin

You may wish to wait for a firmware expert such as Marty or Billy to confirm the safety of this operation though.

If you need a download link for SDFTool Flasher, you can find the download links for it here : viewtopic.php?t=22896

(In your case you would just WRITE the firmware directly.)

As for Linux, something like this should work :
Replace "/dev/sr0" with the correct path to your device (if needed) and replace "/path/to/" with the correct path to the folder where your firmware is.

Do be careful though, as you will be trying to flash Asus firmware to an LG drive :

In some cases crossflashing an Asus drive to an LG or the other way around you may no longer be able to burn disks-SamuriHL