Listing my DVD drive model in linux prompt?

stefaandk · 01-09-2007, 04:46 PM

Any way this can be done as I don't want to reboot my machine to find out.

Thanks.

The Headacher · 01-09-2007, 05:09 PM

I realize you've probably rebooted by now. Consider this as for future reference. If you have a ide drive attached at for example /dev/hdc/, the info about your drive can be found in /proc/ide/hdc/model.

Code:

cd-info

should also give some info.

raskin · 01-09-2007, 05:09 PM

cdrecord -inq
or
cdrecord -scanbus

I'd pass -vvv parameter as well. You may need to pass dev=/dev/... parameter also.

stefaandk · 01-09-2007, 05:22 PM

Thanks guys, that worked, wanted to verify if this machine indeed was a DVD burner.

The weird problem I'm having is that every time I insert a DVD-RW the system auto ejects it.

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K06

I haven't used DVDRW's on Linux or ever burned discs on Linux at all at this stage so I assume I need to do something to prevent the system from ejecting DVDR's.