Application to show media type in CD/DVD drive

Johnny candj01 at att.net
Fri Dec 23 14:49:21 UTC 2011


K3b is the best for this old new bee. Been using it for close to 4 years 
don't think I have ever had trouble with it.
Merry Christmas and God Bless Johnny3 65++


On 12/23/2011 09:23 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> 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?
>





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