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by orson
Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:40 pm
Forum: UHD drives
Topic: Best way to flash a ASUS DW-160D1HT thanks in advance
Replies: 3
Views: 8309

Re: Best way to flash a ASUS DW-160D1HT thanks in advance

MartyMcNuts that worked very well! Thanks for your help! It failed the first time and then I took the disc out of the drive and reopened as administrator, from the “Run as administrator” but then it worked great. Thanks for being concise and helpful! Have a wonderful holliday and years end! Peace, O...
by orson
Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:02 am
Forum: UHD drives
Topic: Best way to flash a ASUS DW-160D1HT thanks in advance
Replies: 3
Views: 8309

Best way to flash a ASUS DW-160D1HT thanks in advance

Dear Friends, Black Friday (along with a HDTV that committed suicide two days prior) has dragged me kicking and screaming into the 4K world. My HTPC has an ASUS DW-160D1HT. My reading tells me this a UHD friendly drive but needs flashing. What is a concise guide somebody can recommend on how to do t...
by orson
Fri Dec 13, 2019 6:52 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv
Replies: 10
Views: 17516

Re: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv

So I got it fixed... turns out I has installed makemkv from the Snappy package... Snappy forces it's' own kind of ACL like system wants you to keep all your activities to your home directory. I have installed it a different way and now it works great! The moral of the story is that Snappy isn't the ...
by orson
Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:32 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv
Replies: 10
Views: 17516

Re: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv

So 18 works better I think but now makemkv won't see optical drives... ugg
by orson
Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:50 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv
Replies: 10
Views: 17516

Re: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv

So I am still stuck...

I think it's 19.10 thing... I updated and now both mkv and VLC player can't get there. I also installed on separate system and got similar results. Trying a 18.x install on my test system to see if its' different.
by orson
Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:05 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv
Replies: 10
Views: 17516

Re: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv

Thanks, in looking at the ls-l's output I saw that too... I'll give it a try...
by orson
Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:39 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv
Replies: 10
Views: 17516

Re: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv

So I tired from the GUI and the config file with this: /Data/media_server/kodi/staging/Not Ready/ Makemkv thinks it doesn't exist. The drive's (Data) owner and permissions are as follows: drwxrwxrwx 10 theadmin theadmin 4096 Dec 3 22:08 Data The directory I am trying to reach is drwxrwxrwx 24 theadm...
by orson
Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:11 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv
Replies: 10
Views: 17516

Very odd problem... can't navigate to second hard drive in makemkv

Hi, first time posting. I hope somebody can help me. I have a Ubuntu 19.10 box that is my HTPC. The OS runs off a modest SSD while my .mkv files for Kodi run on an 8TB conventional disk. I had to reinstall the OS and make makemkv and now I can't navigate to the 8TB disc from the makemkv to write fil...