So, I've been cleaning up my apartment. I unplugged both my drives, moved some stuff around, rearranged my computer area, and plugged them back in.

Now neither of them is acting like it wants to power on. Pressing the "eject" button is doing nothing. There's no lights, nothing.

One drive is an LG WH16NS60 and the other is a Pioneer BDR-X13U-S, both of which have been flashed and ripped hundreds of discs just fine.

I've plugged them into different outlets and computers in different rooms, but nothing. Pressing the button does absolutely nothing at all.

The weird thing is, in WINDOWS, I get the beep beep sound when I plug in the pioneer drive. I can even see "eject pioneer blu ray drive" in the windows 'safely remove hardware' button.

Prior to this, when the LG wasn't working, I checked the Pioneer, which plugged in, and I could read a disc in MakeMKV. I put a disc in to load, and then when I went to rip, I was able to select the language tracks like normal, but after I clicked the rip button, it told me there was no drive. And yeah, now I'm not getting any drive action at all.

Any ideas for troubleshooting?

I'm not sure where to post this but I'm hoping someone here can help. I, like an idiot, didn't do nearly enough research and flashed libredrive firmware on my Asus Blu-Ray drive and now it won't read Blu-Rays. It will read DVDs just fine but not Blu-Rays. I've tried all of the firmware's in the All You Need Firmware Pack (MartyMcNuts) for internal drives and none of them work.

Can someone help me just get my drive back to being able to read and rip Blu-Rays and fix my stupidity????

I just received my complete Series Blu Ray of the Snowpiercer series. As I have found with most Blu Rays the episodes do not seem to rip in order with make mkv leading to validating episodes for naming , etc for Plex/JellyFin.

If anyone else is ripping Snowpiercer this pattern seems to be the magic one for Seasons 1, 3, 4 so far.

Mkv t00 = Track 4 (episode 4 or episode 9)

Mkv t01 = Track 3 (episode 3 or episode 8)

Mkv t02 = track 2 (episode 2 or episode 7)

Mkv t03 = Track 5 (episode 5 or episode 10)

Mkv t04 = Track 1 (episode 1 or episode 6)

You may still want to validate of course but maybe this is useful to someone 😉

I've had the BW-16D1X-U for 39 days and I have been ripping 4Ks without issue. Well, today it seems the drive has failed. MKV can see the drive but it won't pick up the disc. My question is, do I need to revert back to the original firmware before RMA'ing the drive?

I’ve known about this software for years and used it maybe 3-4 times on regular Bluray discs with my BH30N and CH30N, but all the research I did says these 2 drives will never do UHD, and I’m just curious as to why that is. Those drives are MT1939, so I know they can’t do it, but why? Is it a capability of any 1 chip, are there any physical differences in the drive like the laser, etc, or is it just a firmware thing? What is the actual and/or physical reason for the lack of UHD support in drives before around 2016? Also what is the drive platform anyway, like what part of it?

Not trying to demand support or change or anything given that it seems it just can’t won’t happen and I’m pretty thankful people tinkered away for years to make all this possible, I just want to know what is preventing older drives from having UHD capability.

Thanks.

Hi,

Looking for MK firmware for the Pioneer 211M (Think its an oem 211-UBK). I am on firmware version 1.02 and as I understand the MK firmware will unlock certain restrictions preventing backups of my non UHD blurays.

Thanks

Latest KEYDB.cfg appears to work for Fire an Ash.

KeyDB CFG

Getting back into the swing of things backing up and encoding my video library after my server went down have to start over. Got some errors trying to rip a DVD and bluray with my pioneer BDR-211M (two different drives) but was able to complete the task with an old LG bluray drive. I asked an AI which thinks its the USB connection that is the issue and that SATA works better with MakeMKV. Wonder is there truth in that?

Thanks.

Just want to rip some BD from my collection. No need for 4k flashing or 4k reading which seems to be popular here. No need for burning capabilities either. I see a lot of external USB drives on Amazon. Will those work? Should I look for anything specifically?

everything is working and flashed for 4K, thanks to the community for help! I ended up flashing the first file in the guide and then recover flashed BU40N 1.03MK and boom we are in business, watching Avatar on my PC from the 4k disc as we speak, gonna use it as the test rip with MAKEMKV, thanks again all!

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Hey, so I won't lie I tried to find infos here and there but it was difficult to understand since everything is about how to do it and I don't find anything about how to start (which player, etc..)

So what I want to do is ripping DVDs and blu-rays (DVD mostly bc an archive near home has some really niche and rare films that are kinda... invisible).

• What player can I buy for that ?
• Is every PCs can actually rip DVD and blu-ray ?
• Are Regions important for ripping ?
• Is certain DVD / BR unrippable ?

I asked AI to make an automation script for rclone and jottacloud. AI told me to go to MAKEMKV general settings tab and look for " use custom program". I don't see " use Custom Program" anywhere. Then AI told me that I'm using the Microsoft version" of MAKEMKV. which I'm not.

Request for Tips/Advice! Would love to know if I'm buying the wrong drive, exercising a bad practice unknowingly, or whatever else you might suggest to either improve the longevity of my optical drive I'll get in the future/prevent failure in general.

Hi Y'all, I'm newer to rippin' discs, and I've had great success flashing and extracting UDH/Blu-Ray/DVD data using the LG Slim BP60NB10 drive! The results are excellent 99% of the time! The problem is, I've ripped an assortment of these kinds of discs (largely UHD and Blu Ray, about 70/30) and have fried two drives in the process. I want to avoid continuing to waste money on yet another drive and practices that might be damaging them, and I don't know what to do.

My general process:

- 3 - 6 discs on average per-day (2-4 if they're mostly UHD / ~80GB files).

- Give the drive ~15 - 30 min rest in between rip-cycles, to give the hardware a chance to cool off and "recover."

If it helps, here's a summary of the errors I saw on my most recent drive failure (forgive the LLM summary if it sounds stupid, I simply don't have the time or energy to go back and summarize it line by line manually):

• Drive disconnected mid-rip with "Posix error - No such device" on /dev/sr0
• Kernel logged usb 3-1: USB disconnect during active rip sessions
• dmesg showed repeated "Hardware Error" SCSI Sense Key errors with "Logical unit has not self-configured yet" and "Timeout on logical unit"
• Sustained read speed consistently low at 7-8 MB/s on standard Blu-ray (expected 36-54 MB/s)
• "Scsi error - MEDIUM ERROR: NO SEEK COMPLETE" — laser/head couldn't seek to correct position
• "Scsi error - ILLEGAL REQUEST: INVALID FIELD IN CDB" — drive rejecting basic read commands
• "Posix error - Remote I/O error" on /dev/sr0 during rip attempt
• Drive eventually failing to spin up discs at all — inconsistent spin attempts, clicking sounds, disc not recognized
• Final state: drive shows up in lsusb (USB interface alive) but kernel logs no disc insertion events — optical mechanism completely unresponsive
• Drive model: HL-DT-ST BD-RE BP60NB10, firmware 1.02, connected via USB 2.0 bus-powered

Thanks in advance for any tips or advice you might provide!

i’ve held on to all my physical media (maybe 300 dvd/200 blu-ray) and just closed out my storage container with hopes of bringing them home, ripping them, and making a my own streaming library.

i figured out all the networking glitches between my network, NAS, and macbook.

i bought a cheap external drive, but i've run into a shit ton of glitches with makemkv.

did a little research and it looks like i need a pioneer or lg drive.

plus, i might need to upgrade my NAS‘ storage to 12TB (*2 for redundancy).

conservatively, i’m now looking at $1,000 to $1,500 for a reliable optical drive and two HDDs.

my little hobby got really expensive.

am i missing something: maybe a chance to reduce the hardware cost?