Comments on: Linux / UNIX: Find Volume Information From CDs and ISO Images http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/getting-volume-information-from-cds-iso-images/ Every answer asks a more beautiful question. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:55:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SpawnHappyJakehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/getting-volume-information-from-cds-iso-images/#comment-55932 SpawnHappyJake Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:10:24 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=1704#comment-55932 Wow. You guys rock. JSYK, cdrdao and ddpt are pretty cool too. Ddpt is a dd re-write that allows more direct access to hardware if the hardware has a SCSI pass-through interface. And cdrdao seemingly allows more direct access to the hardware without going through Linux's hardware abstraction (because you can type something like "0,0,0" instead of "/dev/sr0" or "/dev/cdrom" of which the latter two are actual paths to files that link to the hardware through the kernel, i.e., hardware abstractions). Oh ... and the isoinfo -d -i command works with a hardware abstraction file to find such info off an actual CD, not just images, like such: isoinfo -d -i /dev/sr1 sample output: CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format System id: CD-RTOS CD-BRIDGE Volume id: BFN_PC Volume set id: Publisher id: Data preparer id: Application id: EASY CD CREATOR 4.2 (285) COPYRIGHT (C) 1996-2000 ADAPTEC, INC. Copyright File id: Abstract File id: Bibliographic File id: Volume set size is: 1 Volume set sequence number is: 1 Logical block size is: 2048 Volume size is: 85992 Joliet with UCS level 3 found NO Rock Ridge present Wow. You guys rock. JSYK, cdrdao and ddpt are pretty cool too. Ddpt is a dd re-write that allows more direct access to hardware if the hardware has a SCSI pass-through interface. And cdrdao seemingly allows more direct access to the hardware without going through Linux’s hardware abstraction (because you can type something like “0,0,0″ instead of “/dev/sr0″ or “/dev/cdrom” of which the latter two are actual paths to files that link to the hardware through the kernel, i.e., hardware abstractions).

Oh … and the isoinfo -d -i command works with a hardware abstraction file to find such info off an actual CD, not just images, like such: isoinfo -d -i /dev/sr1
sample output:
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: CD-RTOS CD-BRIDGE
Volume id: BFN_PC
Volume set id:
Publisher id:
Data preparer id:
Application id: EASY CD CREATOR 4.2 (285) COPYRIGHT (C) 1996-2000 ADAPTEC, INC.
Copyright File id:
Abstract File id:
Bibliographic File id:
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 85992
Joliet with UCS level 3 found
NO Rock Ridge present

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