I cannot mount a DVD, most probably because it is blank, so it contains no filesystem.
Is there a way to be sure that the disk is blank?
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This worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic, may need to be tweaked for others:
alias dstat='/lib/udev/cdrom_id -d /dev/dvd 2>&1 | /bin/grep status'
⏵ dstat
hardware reported media status: blank
Call cdrecord -v -minfo.
If you have more than one CD/DVD/BluRay drive, you need to specify a dev= parameter.
NOTE: the option -minfo (media info) has been introduced 12 years ago, so you need to use a halfway recent cdrecord version to be able to use that option.
See man pages:
http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/man/cdrecord/index.html
A recent version is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/ today, the version 2018-12-06 is recent. Just unpack the tar archive and call make inside at top level.
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Thank you. Would it be -msinfo instead of -minfo? I called the command with -msinfo; could you please tell me which is the relevant field of the output? Among other things, I got:toliveira– toliveira2018-12-18 18:41:24 +00:00Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 18:41
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Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device communication breaks or freezes immediately after that. Errno: 5 (Input/output error), read toc scsi sendcmd: no error Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) wodim: Cannot read session offsettoliveira– toliveira2018-12-18 18:41:31 +00:00Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 18:41
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No, it is
-minfothat means media info, while-msinfomeans multi session info. BTW: You are not usingcdrecord, but a fake command that implements the development state from May 2004.schily– schily2018-12-19 10:29:59 +00:00Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 10:29 -
@GAD3R So there others that are able to see this problem... Could you please point me to a way how to report this?schily– schily2018-12-19 13:13:29 +00:00Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 13:13