macfidelity

Stupid idea….but ok lets explain it anyways.

Today we want to control our mac disc-drive over command-line using the “drutil” command.

Basicly its just open & close the drive, but you can check the commands-man-page for more details and functions, or check Apple’s online-documentation

• Open Terminal.app
• Enter:
  • drutil tray open -> to open the disc-drive tray
  • drutil tray close -> to close the disc-drive tray

Thats it. Some more options for drutil:

Usage: drutil -drive [drive-arguments] command [command-options-and-arguments]
drutil commands are:
atip - Displays ATIP information about inserted CD-R/RW media.
bulkerase - Bulk erases -RW media in either quick or full mode. drutil bulkerase (quick | full)
burn - Burns a given file or directory to disc. drutil burn (burn-options) <path>
cdtext - Displays CD-Text present on an audio CD.
discinfo - Displays disc related info when media is present.
dumpiso - Parses ISO-9660 directory structures. drutil dumpiso <devnode> <block> [format]
dumpudf - Parses UDF directory structures. drutil dumpudf <devnode> <block> [format]
eject - Ejects media from the drive (if any).
erase - Erases -RW media in either quick or full mode. drutil erase (quick | full)
filename - Translates filenames for different filesystems. drutil filename <name>
getconfig - Displays current and supported device features and profiles. drutil getconfig (current | supported)
info - Displays detailed information about connected drives.
list - Lists all connected burning devices.
poll - Constantly polls and displays device notifications.
status - Displays detailed information about inserted media.
subchannel - Displays subchannel (MCN, ISRC) info when CD media is present.
toc - Displays TOC information about inserted CD media.
trackinfo - Displays track related info when media is present.
tray - Opens and closes drive tray, and ejects media. drutil tray (open | close | eject)
version - Display the OS and DiscRecording version numbers.

Have fun with it.

Related links: | MacOSXHints |

• Customizing Terminal in Mac OS X 10.5
• 10.5 ::: Managing Quick Look with qlmanage
• Mac ::: Burn ISO using Disk Utility

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