
Over the last ten years, laptop computers no longer come with optical disc drives in order to reduce costs and make devices lighter, requiring consumers to purchase external optical drives. Read-only DVD and Blu-ray drives are also manufactured, but are less commonly found in the consumer market and mainly limited to media devices such as game consoles and disc media players.
6.3 Use of RID and SID together in forensicsĪs of 2021, most of the optical disc drives on the market are DVD-ROM drives and BD-ROM drives which read and record from those formats, along with having backward compatibility with CD, CD-R and CD-ROM discs compact disc drives are no longer manufactured outside of audio devices. High-Definition Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD VMD).
HD DVD: HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RAM. Blu-ray Disc ( BD): BD-R & BD-RE, Blu-ray 3D, Mini Blu-ray Disc. DVD: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DS, DVD+R DS, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-D, DVD-A, HVD, EcoDisc, MiniDVD. Compact disc ( CD): CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, 5.1 Music Disc, Super Audio CD ( SACD), Photo CD, CD Video ( CDV), Video CD ( VCD), Super Video CD ( SVCD), CD+G, CD-Text, CD-ROM XA, CD-i, MIL-CD, Mini CD. bash_aliases file) to pull the tray back in from the command line.
Sysctl -w =0 # Ensure drive doesn't auto pull tray back in.įor completeness, you can add this alias to your. (This can be ignored if you remove/comment out all lines where rm -r "$" does not exist.
your mount point is automatically created when you insert a disk into the drive.
you setup a permanent mount point for your drive /dev/sr0 (same thing as /dev/cdrom, which is just symbolically linked to /dev/sr0).
I wrote a function that can be called by simply typing opentray on your command line. You can override this with eject -l /media/mountpoint or ( /mnt/mountpoint). Sometimes they don't want to eject, because they are mounted etc.