[Libburn] Drive data/properties gathering

[Derek Foreman]

On Sun, 9 May 2004, [ISO-8859-1] St=E9phane LOEUILLET wrote:

> hi,
>
> > > > Cool.  If you can make it gracefully fallback to 2A when the drive =
fails
> > > > the command, you can just dump the values into an array of speeds i=
n
> > > > struct drive somewhere, and make the existing get/set speed functio=
ns use
> > > > that if it's available...
>
> lets first post a patch with only "write speed list" extraction. i'll do
> the GET_CONFIGURATION part later, once several people have tested this
> on their drives.

I'll test it as soon as I get my old junk drive out of storage.

> > > my Lite-On DVDRW 411S and my LTR 32123S both support it. (first beein=
g
> > > from october 2003 but second beeing from june 2001 if i remember well=
)
> >
> > My LTR-52327S supports it as well, but I'm pretty confident there are
> > drives in service that don't support this.
>
> no problem, i check for the feature depending on the page length

I've seen drives return odd sized data for READ TOC, but that's enough
negativity from me without testing the code.  I'll see how it goes. :)