Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 09:10:48 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to recognise different types of optical media from quite a long way away Message-ID: <20151017091048.d89f5e28.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Can someone suggest a convenient way to identify optical media when inserted into an optical drive? I have no problem with using several tools or grepping through verbose output. What I need is something like: This media is a CD / CD-R / CD-RW / DVD / DVD-R / DVD+R / DVD+RW / DVD-RW / DVD-RAM. Of course the ability to read / write the media depends on of the drive, so I'm using a writer (because I assume that a manufactured DVD, DVD-R or DVD+RW don't matter much to a reader). I know I can use tools like "cdrecord -prcap" to obtain a list of the abilities of the drive, but I'm more interested in the media. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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