On Saturday 18 February 2006 18:25, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer?
Cdrecord tries to detect the disk manufacturer at the beginning of the write process. Look for cdrecord output messages. Here is an example using a TDK blank CD (your messages may be different, of course): ... ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4) ATIP start of lead in: -12369 (97:17/06) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 69 Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo. The orange forum likes to get money for recent information. The information for this media may not be correct. ... -- cat /dev/urandom > /tmp/life -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
