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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 09:39:01 +0100
From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Subject: Re: How to recognise different types of optical media from quite a
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 09:10:48 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> 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:

	Try dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools, it's been a while since I
used it but ISTR it doing what you're looking for.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>