Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

>I only asked the question, as I thought there might be a diagnostic tool that 
>could interrogate the cdrom drive to see if all was ok.

># cdrecord --devices seems to show the drive as available.

Cdrecord does not have a --devices option:

Calling this commandline will pass "ices" to the dev= option.

The correct commandline is:

cdrecord -scanbus

If you do not get an error mesasage with cdrecord --devices, you
are using a fake program but definitely not cdrecord.

Cdrecord is here:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

Jörg

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