LG WH16NS40 MFG May 2014 has MT1959

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mtnmarty
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LG WH16NS40 MFG May 2014 has MT1959

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My LGWH16NS40 manufactured May 2014, ROM VER. 1.00, has MT1959.

Since it has MT1959, shouldn't it be UHD, LibreDrive flashable?

If I am right in thinking this, I thought the rest of the community would also be interested in my discovery.
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Woodstock
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Re: LG WH16NS40 MFG May 2014 has MT1959

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Since the standards for UHD didn't come about until a year after that, though, it would be strange that the hardware would be UHD-capable. The original "BD-XL" standard, which goes back further than that, did not have a high-enough bit density.

If I remember correctly, the original BD-XL was 25GB/layer, and the later UHD version is 33GB/layer.

If you're thinking of trying to flash it, verify that you can dump the current firmware first.
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Billycar11
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Re: LG WH16NS40 MFG May 2014 has MT1959

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mtnmarty wrote:
Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:18 pm
My LGWH16NS40 manufactured May 2014, ROM VER. 1.00, has MT1959.

Since it has MT1959, shouldn't it be UHD, LibreDrive flashable?

If I am right in thinking this, I thought the rest of the community would also be interested in my discovery.
but does makemkv say its mt1959?
another person also check in their drive and said the chip was mt1959 then flashed it and it was bricked
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mtnmarty
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Re: LG WH16NS40 MFG May 2014 has MT1959

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No, curiously MakeMKV reports it as MT1939 and LibreDrive enabled.
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Re: LG WH16NS40 MFG May 2014 has MT1959

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mtnmarty wrote:
Thu Sep 24, 2020 12:28 am
No, curiously MakeMKV reports it as MT1939 and LibreDrive enabled.
yeah do not flash that drive it will die i have no idea why the chip says 1959
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ferrocene12
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Re: LG WH16NS40 MFG May 2014 has MT1959

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I just wanted to add a datapoint that my 2012 BH14NS40 drive does have a MT1959 chip, but MakeMKV sees it as a 1939.
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According to the below table, they're all 1959s.

https://forum.cdrinfo.pl/attachments/f1 ... e_v1.1.pdf
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