Hi Jadburner,
I have a small request for your help again. ***55357;***56842;
I recently bought two Pioneer drives. One is a Pioneer BDR-212BK (FW 1.00), and the other is a Pioneer BDR-S08J-BK.
I would like to cross-flash these drives, if possible, and I was wondering if you could help me with the appropriate cross-flash tools and firmware files.
As before, I fully understand the risks involved and accept full responsibility for the procedure.
I would really appreciate your help once again.
Thank you very much!
Best regards,
Szary Kot

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BDR-209BK2 - Request for Help
 

Hello everyone,
I have a fully functional Pioneer BDR-209BK2 (FW 1.51) drive, and I would like to cross-flash it to a BDR-211 so that I can enable UHD support.
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could share the appropriate cross-flash utility with me.
I fully understand the risks involved and accept full responsibility for the procedure.
Thank you very much for your time and any assistance.
Best regards,
Szary Kot

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hello all
i have i have a BDR-209DBK that i would like to make read UHD
please

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Looking to crossflash a BDR-209BDK to a UHD compatible firmware. Not interested in remote flashing services, figured I'd ask here. Would be appreciated!

this is because you are a reseller selling the drives im sure you would use my flasher many times on 12/22+ drives

others have already attempted to resell my flasher for 12/22+

I wrote to Billycar11 about this, and for doing a crossflash on a drive with factory firmware newer than 12/2022 he asked for $200. I decided that's way too much, and I'd rather wait until the author of BDRflash does something about it.

The version of BDRFlash that we have does not currently support crossflashing drives with the post-November 2022 firmware. You may wish to check with Billy Carr to see if he can help you.

ilbui - Please send that same information to me via PM.

Just successfully crossflashed my "rev. 1" BDR-S08XLT to BDR-211UBK and ripping a UHD BD for the first time. Thank you jadburner for your generous help! Also shout out to blackened2687 (and all the people who helped) for the great work.

I actually did it through a Windows KVM on Linux by the means of "SCSI passthrough" (virtio-scsi + scsi-generic), so although your mileage could vary (as it involves quite a few "components" that might occasionally break in one sense or another, such as the respective drivers in the Linux kernel, qemu and the virtio-scsi Windows driver), at the very least it could work. (Now I'm wondering if it would even work through wine...given that it apparently works well for ImgBurn I suppose there's at least some support for SPTI...?)

Btw because my S08 is already a half-dead drive (red laser down; tray is hard to eject), I'm thinking of sourcing another Pioneer drive from the local second-hand market, but I'm having the following doubt:

1. Does the current BDRFlash support crossflashing a drive that has been updated to an "unsafe" version (i.e. from Dec 2022 or later) of firmware? (I'm presuming that Dec 2022 was when the "downgrade lock" was introduced.) As the drive I just flashed presumably had a "safe" one. (I resisted the lure to update it when I saw the post-Dec 2022 1.51 updater.)
2. Should I avoid crossflashing a drive with an "unsafe" firmware for any reason(s)? (For example, only the 1.04 and 1.05 updaters for the "12th gen" models come with a kernel. If I got a 12th gen that isn't already "UHD-ready" (but "capable"), should I procure a suitable 1.02 kernel+firmware from someone? As the BDR-211UBK 1.53 firmware I got from jadburner is a "safe" one as per my knowledge.)

Hello, I have a Pioneer BDR-209BDK that I'd like to crossflash to BDR-211 to be able read UHD discs with it. Is it possible ? Thanks in advance!


Drive Information
OS device name: F:
Manufacturer: PIONEER
Product: BD-RW BDR-209D
Revision: 1.30
Serial number:
Firmware date: 2014-12-05
Bus encryption flags: 13
Highest AACS version: 77

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: RS8600
Firmware name: PIONEER BDR-209
Firmware type: Original (unpatched)
Firmware version: 1.30/ID61
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yes

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