Media Detection

[Tim Aslat]

Hi All,

Just trying to set up a PVR type device and would like to throw in a
feature to detect what media (if any) is inserted into the DVD burner.

Currently I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 with atapicam and the
burner device is a CDRW <LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S> as reported by the
kernel boot messages.

The dmesg gives me this info

cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S GSB6> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device 
cd0: 16.000MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present

How would I go about checking the media if it's a blank, non-blank or RW
disk?

C or C++ code would be great.

Cheers

Tim

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