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Subject: Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference??
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:40:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote at 20:52 this Sunday (GMT):
> On 2025-02-16 20:04, Paul wrote:
>> The actual companies, have names like CMC, Ritek, Tao Yuden.
>> Memorex buys lots of discs from a certain supplier, and
>> it's a different supplier than Maxell would buy from.
>> 
>> Philips doesn't make disks, and it buys whatever is available.
>> 
>> The media tag might make this clear, when you use your burning
>> software to read the tag. The tag is practically*never* going
>> to match the brand stamped on the cake box. The two layers of
>> the system are that isolated.
>
> There is a command in Linux that gives you the actual information on the 
> disk, but I do not remember it an it is not in my notes under "DVD". Ah, 
> it is "dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd".
>
> And then there were tables that told the quality of the disk based on 
> that result, possibly in the links I posted earlier.


For the computers I've had, I think only /dev/sr0 shows up for the disk
file.
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