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colinb
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jun 2002
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 Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 1:39 am Post subject: Utility to obtain drive information? (Firmware, etc.) |
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Is there some utility available for Linux that retreives information from a CD/DVD drive, including firmware revision?
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scocou
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Joined: 16 Aug 2002
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Location: Pacific NW, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 2:02 am Post subject: |
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I think you should poke around in /proc, I can't check specifically because this box has no cdrom but | Code: | | cat /proc/ide/hda/* |
gives me some useful info about my harddrive, no firmware rev# although maybe there is for cdrom drives. Look for /proc/ide/cdrom0, or whatever it's called, and concatenate it. Doesn't your firmware rev# get displayed by cdrecord somehow? I seem to remember seeing it on my other box when using k3b, but I could be wrong  I also thought it was displayed during POST on most systems... |
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scocou
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| Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:51 am Post subject: |
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I found my firmware revision of my cdrw on this box from dmesg, when the kernel scsi subsysem was loaded
| Code: | SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: LG Model: CD-RW CED-8083B Rev: 1.05
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
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You'll notice Rev: 1.05 after model #... if that's all you're after maybe that'll help  |
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