Detect type of devices? - Club CDFreaks

BurnAPI · 01-03-2006

Using NeroCom and VB6, if you have a computer with 3 devices, is there a reliable way to detect which one is a CD Burner, CD/DVD burner and normal CD-ROM?

Oliver M. · 02-03-2006

NeroDrive.MediaSupport returns a bitfield of supported media (NERO_MEDIA_TYPE).

cornel001 · 05-05-2006

It doesnt work for me.

drives = nero.GetDrives(NERO_MEDIA_TYPE.NERO_MEDIA_DVD_ANY)

and

If (drives.Item(myIndex).MediaSupport And NERO_MEDIA_TYPE.NERO_MEDIA_DVD_ANY = NERO_MEDIA_TYPE.NERO_MEDIA_DVD_ANY)

both returns also drives that do not support DVDs, nor writing nor reading.

I suppose that

drives.Item(myIndex).DevType = NERO_SCSI_DEVTYPE.NERO_SCSI_DEVTYPE_WORM

would work for DVDs also, i.e. filters only dvd-write capable drives, not also dvd read only units ?

In fact i want to get a list only with DVD-write capable drives in the system, how do i do ?

01-03-2006	#1 (permalink)
BurnAPI New on Forum Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 8	Detect type of devices? <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> Using NeroCom and VB6, if you have a computer with 3 devices, is there a reliable way to detect which one is a CD Burner, CD/DVD burner and normal CD-ROM?

02-03-2006	#2 (permalink)
Oliver M. CD Freaks Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 109	Re: Detect type of devices? NeroDrive.MediaSupport returns a bitfield of supported media (NERO_MEDIA_TYPE).

05-05-2006	#3 (permalink)
cornel001 New on Forum Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 11	Re: Detect type of devices? It doesnt work for me. drives = nero.GetDrives(NERO_MEDIA_TYPE.NERO_MEDIA_DVD_ANY) and If (drives.Item(myIndex).MediaSupport And NERO_MEDIA_TYPE.NERO_MEDIA_DVD_ANY = NERO_MEDIA_TYPE.NERO_MEDIA_DVD_ANY) both returns also drives that do not support DVDs, nor writing nor reading. I suppose that drives.Item(myIndex).DevType = NERO_SCSI_DEVTYPE.NERO_SCSI_DEVTYPE_WORM would work for DVDs also, i.e. filters only dvd-write capable drives, not also dvd read only units ? In fact i want to get a list only with DVD-write capable drives in the system, how do i do ?

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