Hi,
> how can I check if a medium has never been burnt, i.e. is ready for
> burning?
Both states are not equivalent on media
level.
A new BD-RE for example is not ready for
burning until you format it. Burn programs
are supposed to detect that state and to
apply formatting on the first write attempt,
though.
Vice versa, written DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-RE
and formatted DVD-RW are ready for burning
although they are not new or blank.
With other media there are states which allow
to append sessions to written media.
It looks like a necessary condition for
the desired state is that MMC command
READ CAPACITY returns 0 bytes of size.
That would include blanked (non-new)
CD-RW and DVD-RW.
If you restrict your media zoo to sequential
one-time media CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, BD-R, then
READ CAPACITY 0 should be equivalent to
"never burnt" (except ill burnt media perhaps).
How to inquire READ CAPACITY ?
The block device driver probably uses that
command to learn the device size.
So on shell level one could do this:
dd if=/dev/sr0 bs=2048 count=1 2>/dev/null | \
wc | fgrep 2048 >/dev/null \
|| echo "Empty media found"
On Linux kernel level there is
#include <linux/fs.h>
fd = open("/dev/sr0", O_RDONLY);
ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE, &blocks);
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
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