This section describes a tutorial on how to get summary information of a CD-ROM with 'isoinfo' tool.
One of the tools included in the cdrtools package is called "isoinfo",
which is a great tool to perform analysis an ISO 9660 file system on a CD-ROM.
"isoinfo" supports the following options:
C:\>\local\cdrtools\isoinfo -help
/cygdrive/c/local/cdrtools/isoinfo:
Usage: /cygdrive/c/local/cdrtools/isoinfo [options] -i filename
Options:
-help,-h Print this help
-version Print version info and exit
-debug Print additional debug info
-d Print information from the primary volume descriptor
-f Generate output similar to 'find . -print'
-J Print information from Joliet extensions
-j charset Use charset to display Joliet file names
-l Generate output similar to 'ls -lR'
-p Print Path Table
-R Print information from Rock Ridge extensions
-s Print file size infos in multiples of sector size
-N sector Sector number where ISO image should start on CD
-T sector Sector number where actual session starts on CD
-i filename Filename to read ISO-9660 image from
dev=target SCSI target to use as CD/DVD-Recorder
-x pathname Extract specified file to stdout
I tried to use "isoinfo" to display information from
the primary volume descriptor on a CD contains device drivers for a Dell monitor
C:\>\local\cdrtools\isoinfo dev=0,0,0 -d
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id:
Volume id: ____
Volume set id:
Publisher id:
Data preparer id:
Application id: NERO - BURNING ROM
Copyright File id:
Abstract File id:
Bibliographic File id:
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 33034
Joliet with UCS level 3 found
NO Rock Ridge present
The output is very nice. It tells me that:
The CD drive is located at "dev=0,0,0", the first device on the first SCSI bus.
This CD does have data stored in ISO 9660 format
This CD uses the CD-ROM Mode 1 standard, because the sector size is 2048 bytes.
The data size on the CD is about 33,034 * 2,048 bytes = 67,653,632 bytes.
This matches exactly what Window Explorer reports on this CD.
