Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:11:41 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Programmatically test for a DVD drive Message-ID: <1071868301.762.27.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20031219210748.GD559@funkthat.com> References: <1071624821.78714.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031219200214.GC559@funkthat.com> <1071864527.762.17.camel@gyros> <20031219210748.GD559@funkthat.com>
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--=-ivC8pRAioLiNLZdwfBM9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 16:07, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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 J=F6rg= Schilling >=20 > and returns this: > Drive capabilities, per MMC-2 page 2A: >=20 > 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 >=20 > which is probably what you're interested in.. Exactly. I was looking through the code, and it does indeed get all of the info I need. Thanks again. Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-ivC8pRAioLiNLZdwfBM9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/42mNb2iPiv4Uz4cRAkuqAJ9rS0hk9+IxYr4GtagQxNqr4NmS7wCeK6Zj Cwe6bYduSK4E6WXf/f+znFE= =uD7Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ivC8pRAioLiNLZdwfBM9--
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