Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:05:54 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Multimedia <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Media Detection Message-ID: <20040413200554.GO567@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040413125131.04358c77@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> References: <20040413125131.04358c77@bofh.spyderweb.com.au>
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Tim Aslat wrote this message on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:51 +0930:
> Currently I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 with atapicam and the
> burner device is a CDRW <LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S> as reported by the
> kernel boot messages.
>
> The dmesg gives me this info
>
> cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> cd0: <LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S GSB6> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
> cd0: 16.000MB/s transfers
> cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
>
> How would I go about checking the media if it's a blank, non-blank or RW
> disk?
Take a look at cdrecord -atip... This will probably do what you want..
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