On May 7, 11:39am, William Lindley wrote:
> Is there a way, from a bash script or Perl program, to find data *about*
> the CDROM or CDRW in the drive -- for example, my program needs to know:
>
> the type of disc (CDR or CDRW)
> the disc capacity (e.g., is it a 650 MB or a 700 MB disc)
> for existing discs, the copyright/publisher/other data
> which are recorded on the disc preamble
Some of this info is available via ``cdrecord -atip''. (But see the
caveat on the man page.) Assuming that your drive is capable of reading
the ATIP info, your script could invoke cdrecord and parse the output.
Kevin
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