I'm using linux 2.4.
I need to know what kind of media is in a CD/DVD drive from a shell script.
First I use
dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/cdrom
which, if DVD media is in the drive, will tell me what kind (DVD-R, DVD-RAM,
...); if it fails saying that what's in the drive is not a DVD I then use
cdrecord -atip dev=<devid>
and scan cdrecord output for
"Is erasable" -> CD-RW
"Is not erasable" -> CD-R
no "erasable" string -> CD-ROM
However, recently I found that in some cases cdrecord, maybe due to the
drive not returning all the info it needs, will not print the "erasable"
string even if the media is CD-RW (cdrecord can succesfully burn it).
So, do you know of any definitive method to get the media type?
Thanks
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