Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:07:48 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmatically test for a DVD drive Message-ID: <20031219210748.GD559@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <1071864527.762.17.camel@gyros> References: <1071624821.78714.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031219200214.GC559@funkthat.com> <1071864527.762.17.camel@gyros>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote this message on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 15:08 -0500:
> > Take a look at cdrecord and see what that does... But that might
> > require you to use atapi-cam instead of the "normal" atapi-cd device.
>
> Thanks for the pointer. Using atapi-cam is not a problem since the
> application I'm porting is basically a front-end to cdrecord which
> requires atapi-cam. However, I didn't know cdrecord detected the
> difference on its own, or just did what it was told via command line
> arguments.
cdrecord on macosx (I don't have a FreeBSD box w/ atapi-cam on it handy),
has the -prcap in:
Cdrecord 2.01a14 (powerpc-apple-macosx6.8) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
and returns this:
Drive capabilities, per MMC-2 page 2A:
Does read CD-R media
Does write CD-R media
Does read CD-RW media
Does write CD-RW media
Does read DVD-ROM media
Does read DVD-R media
Does not write DVD-R media
Does not read DVD-RAM media
Does not write DVD-RAM media
Does support test writing
which is probably what you're interested in..
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