ASUS BC-12B1ST DVD Drive
I managed to flash this thing with LibreDrive from MakeMKV so now it can play UHD discs as well!
Sadly, the tray automatically closes if open for 3 minutes, and it drives me crazy!
With DVD in drive:
Maximum read speed: 8310 kB/s (CD 47x, DVD 6x, BD 1x) Current read speed: 8310 kB/s (CD 47x, DVD 6x, BD 1x) Maximum write speed: 0 kB/s (CD 0x, DVD 0x, BD 0x) Current write speed: 0 kB/s (CD 0x, DVD 0x, BD 0x)
With Blu-ray in drive:
Maximum read speed: 35968 kB/s (CD 204x, DVD 25x, BD 8x) Current read speed: 26976 kB/s (CD 153x, DVD 19x, BD 6x) Maximum write speed: 0 kB/s (CD 0x, DVD 0x, BD 0x) Current write speed: 0 kB/s (CD 0x, DVD 0x, BD 0x)
udevadm info:
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sr1 N: sr1 S: disk/by-id/usb-ASUS_BC-12B1ST_b_002933008114-0:0 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-ASUS_BC-12B1ST_b_002933008114-0:0 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: DEVNAME=/dev/sr1 E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sr1 E: DEVTYPE=disk E: ID_BUS=usb E: ID_CDROM=1 E: ID_CDROM_BD=1 E: ID_CDROM_CD=1 E: ID_CDROM_CD_R=1 E: ID_CDROM_CD_RW=1 E: ID_CDROM_DVD=1 E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R=1 E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_RW=1 E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R_DL=1 E: ID_CDROM_DVD_R=1 E: ID_CDROM_DVD_RAM=1 E: ID_CDROM_DVD_RW=1 E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1 E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1 E: ID_FOR_SEAT=block-pci-0000_00_14_0-usb-0_2_1_0-scsi-0_0_0_0 E: ID_INSTANCE=0:0 E: ID_MODEL=BC-12B1ST_b E: ID_MODEL_ENC=BC-12B1ST\x20\x20\x20b\x20\x20\x20 E: ID_MODEL_ID=de2c E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: ID_PATH_TAG=pci-0000_00_14_0-usb-0_2_1_0-scsi-0_0_0_0 E: ID_REVISION=3.01 E: ID_SERIAL=ASUS_BC-12B1ST_b_002933008114-0:0 E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=002933008114 E: ID_TYPE=cd E: ID_USB_DRIVER=usb-storage E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:080650: E: ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM=00 E: ID_VENDOR=ASUS E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=ASUS\x20\x20\x20\x20 E: ID_VENDOR_ID=1e91 E: MAJOR=11 E: MINOR=1 E: SUBSYSTEM=block E: SYSTEMD_MOUNT_DEVICE_BOUND=1 E: SYSTEMD_READY=0 E: TAGS=:seat:udev-acl: E: USEC_INITIALIZED=563306149
Old notes from 2020 (?): I still have it, so I don't know if/when I actually returned it.
Had to return mine. :( On some boots it wouldn't register in the BIOS, would show up as an IDE drive, or the kernel would have events loading it. I'm certain that the “e-green” functionality that's designed to save power by spinning down faster and spinning up more slowly is the problem. Scanning some DVDs it'd take seconds to respond.
