Identify

[Janne Jokitalo]

User Iam wrote:
> Hi

Hello.

> How do I identify the CD/DVD on a remote system...
> 
> I thought lspci would show me...

I don't think a CD/DVD-drive would be stuffed into one of those slots. :)

> I can't think of the command I need here...

Have you tried `lshw`? Here's what it shows for me re: CD-drive:

jaska at bowmore:~$ lshw
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
bowmore
<snip>
*-ide:0
             description: IDE interface
             product: M5229 IDE
             vendor: ALi Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci at 0000:00:1f.0
             version: c8
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ALI15x3_IDE latency=32 module=alim15x3
           *-ide
                description: IDE Channel 0
                physical id: 0
                bus info: ide at 0
                logical name: ide0
                clock: 66MHz
              *-cdrom
                   product: ATAPI-CD ROM-DRIVE-52MAX
                   physical id: 0
                   bus info: ide at 0.0
                   logical name: /dev/hda
                   capabilities: packet


Hope that helps a bit.


-- 
Jaska