How to recognize CD|DVD|-Rewriters and Media inside ?

[harff182]

moin, moin...

Is there any possibility to find out with PB, whether the optical drive is a CD|CD-Rewriter|DVD|DVD-Rewriter and what kind of medium (CD-R|CD-RW|DVD|DVD-RAM|DVD-+R|DVD+-RW) is inside ?
I'm primarily searching for a solution under WinXP, but it would be nice, if it works on older Windows, too

TIA....
scholly

[Sparkie]

This looks like it may be a step in the right direction...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... lmedia.asp

Here's some WMI info for you as well...
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... hlight=wmi

I haven't done anything with WMI, but if I get a chance this weekend I'll see what I can come up with... OR wait for a few minutes and netmaestro will most likely stop by with the complete code

[netmaestro]

Thx for the vote of confidence but netmaestro is netbozo on this subject. I just don't know anything about it!

[Sparkie]

Damn...and here I thought you'd get me off the hook and free up my weekend nettie'm.

Hey wait a minute....where's that srod been hiding lately. Ya, that's the ticket, get srod to do it

[srod]

Damn...and here I thought you'd get me off the hook and free up my weekend nettie'm.

Hey wait a minute....where's that srod been hiding lately. Ya, that's the ticket, get srod to do it

See netty's answer above! Beside's I barely have time to post my mail these days!

No, this one's for the bat!


***Jeepers Sparkie, that does look complicated! It's all com stuff!

[harff182]

moin, moin...

This looks like it may be a step in the right direction...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... lmedia.asp

I've downloaded the SDK, installed the documentation and yes, quite interesting stuff

Here's some WMI info for you as well...
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... hlight=wmi

Well, I don't understand a lot of the code, but I found the DATA-lines to test with Win32_CDROMDrive and Win32_PhysicalMedia.

Unfortunately, only Win32_CDROMDrive gives some results:

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Data.s "SELECT * FROM Win32_CDROMDrive","Size","ID","Description","Manufacturer","VolumeName","MediaType","Size"

while Win32_PhysicalMedia, which could give me more interesting data, returns only empty values:(:

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 Data.s "Select * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia", "Name", "Caption", "Description","MediaType","Model"

I also did some tests with Droopy's Lib 29/05/2006 Version 1.31.2 (PB4) BETA installed, which gave the same results:(:

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MessageRequester("WMI",WMI("SELECT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia,Caption ,Name,Description")) 
MessageRequester("WMI",WMI("SELECT * FROM Win32_CDROMDrive,ID,Description,Manufacturer,VolumeName,MediaType,Size")) 

While I undwerstand, that some parts might not work on the W98-box, I have no idea, why Win32_PhysicalMedia refuses to work here on XP-SP2.

Any help on the horizon ?

TIA....
scholly

[Sparkie]

I'm getting the same results as you harff182. I doubt that it's a PB issue, as I don't get any better results from a VBScript file when using Win32_PhysicalMedia

[harff182]

I'm getting the same results as you harff182. I doubt that it's a PB issue, as I don't get any better results from a VBScript file when using Win32_PhysicalMedia

So it's not me, being to dull to use it
Seems I have to stick with Win32_CDROMDrive until someone stumbles over this threat and shows us a solution to use _PhysicalMedia, as its MediaTypes are far superior to the ones of _CDROMDrive and _LogicalDisk.

Anyway, even _CDROMDrive helps me to make my Media-Database a little bit more userfriendly and I probably find other interesting stuff in the WMI-docs

Thanks for your help...
scholly

[GeoTrail]

When I try this

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MessageRequester("WMI",WMI("SELECT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia,Caption,Description,InstallDate,Name,Status,CreationClassName,Manufacturer,Model,SKU,SerialNumber,Tag,Version,PartNumber")) 

The only results I get is SerialNumber and TAG, the rest is blank.

[Derek]

As a sideline, does anyone know how to get the Enhanced Disc Information off of a DVD.

E.g. put a recorded DVD in your drive and run nero, press ctrl+shift and click on 'I' and you get the enhanced disc info.

What I am interested in is the 'field id' figures because they change depending on disc manufacter, so you could read them in your program and unless the person copying your disc uses the same kind then you will know it is a copy.

I know it's only rudimentary but it is a start.