From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 24 18:34:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23EC637B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 18:34:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F8443E4A for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 18:34:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gBP2YVn0011365; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:34:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:34:31 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Nathan Kinkade Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to find the capacity of CD? Message-ID: <20021225023431.GD41621@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021224144253.GA156@dhumketu.homeunix.net> <20021224202010.GB53061@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021224202010.GB53061@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 24), Nathan Kinkade said: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 08:12:53PM +0530, Shantanu Mahajan wrote: > > Is there any way to find out the capacity of blank CD before > > buring? > > Shouldn't most CD-ROMs have around 700MB capacity? Are are you > looking to find out how much space is left on a partially written CD > that has not been fixated? There are a couple of sizes. The old standard was 650, the current is 700, and you can apparently also get 870MB cds, although I have no idea where. You also have those little 200MB 3-inch cd's (take a look at your CD drive tray; the little circular depression in the center of the tray is for those). I know cdrecord prints the capacity of the media before its 10-second delay; there might be a way to get media info without attempting a burn and hitting ^C. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message