Getting information from media inserted in a physical device

Table of Contents Command description Command usage Example Operating system support

Command description

This operation will request and show all information about the inserted media in a physical device. For information about supported physical devices check the list of supported physical devices

Command usage

DiscImageChef media-info -d [true/false] -i <device> -v [true/false] -w [prefix]

-d, --debug=[true/false] shows debug output (default false)
-i, --input=<device> path to the physical device
-v, --verbose=[true/false] shows verbose output (default false)
-w, --output-prefix=[prefix] writes binary responses from device to that prefix

Example

FreeBSD: DiscImageChef media-info -i /dev/cd0
Linux: DiscImageChef media-info -i /dev/sdb
Windows: DiscImageChef media-info -i \\.\PhysicalDrive3

Operating system support

Device type	FreeBSD	macOS	Linux	Windows
SCSI Block device	Yes	No [1]	Yes	Yes
SCSI MultiMedia device	Yes	Not yet [2]	Yes	Yes
SCSI Streaming device	Yes	No [1]	Yes	Yes
Parallel ATA	No [3]	No [3]	No [3]	No [3]
Serial ATA	No [3]	No [3]	No [3]	No [3]
USB	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
FireWire	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PCMCIA	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SecureDigital / MultiMediaCard	No [3]	No [3]	No [3]	No [3]

1. a b macOS only allows talking with MultiMedia devices
2. ^ Support for MultiMedia devices in macOS will be added if users require it
3. a b c d e f g h i j k l Use device-info command