Application to show media type in CD/DVD drive

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 09:08:13AM -0600, CJ Tres wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 05:57 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> >What's a good application for showing what sort of disk has been put
> >into the CD/DVD drive?
> >
> >I currently have xfburn installed and that doesn't tell me anything about
> >the disk media.
> >
> 
> Are you referring to blank or written disks?

Well, either really, I want to be able to check unmarked disks to see
what type of disk they are (CD or DVD, writable, re-writable, readable)
and, if they are read-only, see what sort of data is on the disk.

> By default the Gnome desktop tells me that I've inserted a blank CD or DVD.
> Of course that's only with blank media.
> Probably not a lot of help but it may give you an idea for searching.
> 
Maybe I could search for 'blank media'.

I know I *used* to have an application which had a menu option that
attempted to analyse what sort of disk was in the drive, however I don't
really want to go and install lots of CD/DVD burning utilities just to
find one that can do that.

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Chris Green