read CD/DVD serial number

[clickalot]

His,

I am doing a script to catalog my CDs and DVDs (all burned with windows) and at this point I would like to know how to read the serial number of the CD/DVD

in DOS/windows i do a dir command and i get a serial number. something like:

c:> dir d:
Volume in drive D is book2      Serial number is 4FD6:825E
(...)

How do i get that serial number under Linux?

Thanks!

[GNU-Fan]

The hdparm command with the -I Parameter gives many infos.
But it needs to have root rights, so there might be a better way.

[clickalot]

Hi GNU-Fan,

in my case:

$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sr0

will give information on the cd-rom device and not on the actual optical media...

sorry, i wasn't clear enough

[GNU-Fan]

Maybe browse the proc directory.
The pseudofiles in there should give you ample information.
CDROM driver (sr or scd)

[minthaka]

If you're using a Debian or Redhat based distro, I'm inviting you to try out my program for CD/DVD catalogization I'm developing since january this year. Of course, I don't want you to abandon your scripting, I'd just like to hear your opinions, since I don't know what do I have to add. I have very few feedbacks, so I don't know. Thank you!

The link:
Browse GamCat Files on SourceForge.net
Anc the project's public page with infos (please read them):
GamCat KDE-Apps.org

[clickalot]

Thanks for the good pointer GNU-Fan

minthaka: that's exciting that you are developing a gui based cataloger!
I'll probably have time in january to look into it better
(right now i installed it, it asked me a bunch of questions and then it crashed - probably because i don't have gambas database installed... btw: i'm using Ubuntu 9.04-64bit)


also:
I'm starting to think that many serial numbers aren't stamped into the media... instead, it's the dos dir command that generates it...

[minthaka]

YOU MUST INSTALL the gambas2-gb-db-sqlite2 and sqlite3 PACKAGES MANUALLY. This is due to an old version of gambas2 present in Ubuntu. Please, simply delete the folder /home/user/.GamCat and restart the app.