Read cd-rom drive info

[wicked1]

Hi, Sorry for the simple question, as I know it’s been answered. I can’t seem to find it right now.
I want to read the hardware info from my cd-rom drive. It’s actually a hd-dvd drive, but has no stickers or anything on it. I want to read its flash from the command line. I don’t know if the “flash” is exactly what I want to read, but whatever displays its info… model, serial, that stuff.
(final goal being - I want to see if I can flash it to read blu-ray, but I need to figure out what drive it is first!)

So, what’s the command to query the hardware info for the drive?

thanks a lot

[malcolmlewis]

@wicked1

Hi, Sorry for the simple question, as I know it’s been answered. I
can’t seem to find it right now.
I want to read the hardware info from my cd-rom drive. It’s actually a
hd-dvd drive, but has no stickers or anything on it. I want to read its
flash from the command line.
(final goal being - I want to see if I can flash it to read blu-ray,
but I need to figure out what drive it is first!)

So, what’s the command to query the hardware info for the drive?

thanks a lot

Hi
Use the hwinfo command (use root user for more verbose information)

hwinfo --cdrom

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[wicked1]

Thank you!