On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:17, Borut Mrak wrote: > I'm looking for a program that could detect what kind of medium is inserted > in a CD/DVD writer. Is it a CD or DVD or is the drive empty. On top of that > I would like to know if the inserted medium is empty or not, but that is > not really necessary, because the writing will just fail if the drive is > not empty.
result=`isoinfo -i /dev/cdrom -d` retcode=$? $retcode will be 123 for an empty drive, 1 for a blank cdr, 0 for a cdr with an iso file system on it. You can pipe $result into grep to search for specific strings to get more information. You might need to use result=`cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -msinfo` when you get a $retcode of 0. If the cdr is fixated $result will be an empty string, otherwise you will get a pair of numbers separated with a comma. The 0,0,0 and /dev/cdrom need to be values that apply to your system. HTH Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
