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Is there a way to quickly detect what type of media is loaded in a drive, and whether it is blank or not, besides using mount to see if you can mount the disc?
I found a posting that suggested using dvd+rw-mediainfo, but this tool only works for DVD media.
I have a backup script that requires using CD-Rs. I want the script to be able to check whether a CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-R is loaded, and to check if it is writable or not, then either proceed if it is a blank CD-R, or return an error if the wrong media is loaded.
this gives you the disk status ('empty' or 'complete') and media type, and you can further pipe these to awk to get the second column i.e. | awk '{ print $2 }'
I just built Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
-media-info must be in only the x64 version, because it still complains, - Or do you need the Pro version to work? I get a little farther with -atip, but -prcap still doesn't give me the information I need, -prcap only gives me the current read/write speed, and -atip only tells me if it's a DVD - it won't identify a CD-R... but that's a start... thanks for your help.
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