Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive
Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> If you do not get an error mesasage with cdrecord --devices, you
> are using a fake program but definitely not cdrecord.
>
rather than confusing the person more with the information that (s)he is
using a *fake program*, here is some more helpful information.
fake program = wodim [0]
cdrecord package in debian repositories is described as "Dummy
transition package for wodim" [1]
or you can do apt-cache show cdrecord
$> apt-cache show cdrecord
Package: cdrecord
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 40
Maintainer: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: cdrkit
Version: 9:1.1.6-1
Depends: wodim (>= 5:1.0~pre1-1), debconf | debconf-2.0
Filename: pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrecord_1.1.6-1_all.deb
Size: 1230
MD5sum: 114929462887be2bd1decff3eb697420
SHA1: da81957901e58c7c878ce14a0e461d876a86a273
SHA256: bd11ee10a3cd0c2313c2bd6c9cac5c85d9134cfffc474dfc93c8b337a01c16e7
Description: Dummy transition package for wodim
This is a dummy package to ease the transition to wodim, the fork of
cdrecord. It provides a cdrecord symlink to wodim for compatibility
purposes. Please use wodim instead of cdrecord.
Tag: hardware::storage, hardware::storage:cd, interface::commandline,
use::storing, works-with::archive, works-with-format::iso9660
> Cdrecord is here:
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
>
> Jörg
>
[0] http://packages.debian.org/wodim
[1] http://packages.debian.org/cdrecord
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