How to detect DVD writer’s device name and its writing speed from the command line on Linux

Posted by xmodulo on Oct 12, 2014 11:55 PM EDT
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Most consumer PCs and laptops nowadays come with a DVD writer. In Linux, optical drives such as CD/DVD drives are assigned device names by the kernel based on udev rules at the time of booting. There are several ways to detect the writer's device name and its writing speed.

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