Verify if a system has DVD burners?

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Is it possible to verify if the system has a DVD burner installed? I need this for a script.

Renan · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-08T01:39:10.750

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As said in a comment, there is a cleaner way of doing that: wodim -prcap which gives exactly what you need.

Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.

Also, dmesg | grep RW, in my case (DVD-RW/BD reader drive) it returns something like

[    2.399074] ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRW/BDROM CT40N, A101, max UDMA/133
[    2.409247] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD CT40N    A101 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

and wodim dev=/dev/cdrom -scanbus:

scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRWBD CT40N   ' 'A101' Removable CD-ROM

edited Apr 08 '12 at 01:39

answered Apr 07 '12 at 14:21

Renan

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`wodim -prcap` will give you better output about the capabilities of the device. – Jodie C Apr 08 '12 at 01:37
@JodieC didn't know about this one. Added to my answer – Renan Apr 08 '12 at 01:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '12 at 01:08

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Simply enough: lshal|grep dvdr

answered Apr 08 '12 at 01:08

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This works if the system uses HAL, and some newer distros (e.g. Arch Linux, newer Ubuntu versions) don't. – Renan Apr 08 '12 at 01:16

Verify if a system has DVD burners?

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