Application to show media type in CD/DVD drive

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:58:00AM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 03:57 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.
> > 
> 
> Like this?
> 
> k3b Device|Media Info
> Medium
> Type:	CD-R
> Capacity:	79:57:71 min (702.8 MiB)
> Used Capacity:	79:06:42 min (695.3 MiB)
> Remaining:	00:00:00 min (0 B)
> Rewritable:	no
> Appendable:	no
> Empty:	no
> Sessions:	1
> Supported writing speeds:	8x (1411 KB/s)
> 16x (2822 KB/s)
> 32x (5645 KB/s)
> 40x (7056 KB/s)
> 
> ISO9660 Filesystem Info
> System Id:	-
> Volume Id:	Ubuntu 11.10 i386
> Volume Set Id:	-
> Publisher Id:	-
> Preparer Id:	XORRISO-1.0.8 2011.04.14.073001, LIBISOBURN-1.0.8,
> LIBISOFS-1.0.8, LIBBURN-1.0.6
> Application Id:	-
> Volume Size:	695.3 MiB (2,048 B * 355,990 blocks = 729,067,520 B)
> 
> Tracks
> Type	Attributes	First-Last Sector	Length
> 1	(Data/Mode1)	no copy/uninterrupted	0 - 355991	355992 (79:06:42)
> 
> 
Exactly!  I had k3b installed once upon a time.  The trouble is that it
pulls in a whole pile of KDE libraries that I don't otherwise need.  Is
there no Gnome equivalent?

-- 
Chris Green