Getting information from a physical device

Table of Contents Command description Command usage Example Operating system support

Command description

This operation will request and show all information about a physical device. For information about supported physical devices check the list of supported physical devices

Command usage

DiscImageChef device-info -i <device> -v [true/false] -d [true/false] -w [prefix]

-i, --input=<dump> path to the physical device
-v, --verbose=[true/false] shows verbose output (default false)
-d, --debug=[true/false] shows debug output (default false)
-w, --output-prefix=[prefix] writes binary responses from device to that prefix

Example

DiscImageChef analyze -i mydisc.cue

Operating system support

OS	SCSI Block device	SCSI MultiMedia device	SCSI Streaming device	Parallel ATA	Serial ATA	USB	FireWire	PCMCIA	SecureDigital / MultiMediaCard
FreeBSD	Yes	Yes	Yes	No [1]	Yes	Partial [2]	Partial [3]	Partial [4]	Not yet [5]
macOS	No [6]	Not yet [7]	No [6]	No [6]	No [6]	Partial [8]	Partial [8]	Partial [8]	No [6]
Linux	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [3]	Partial [4]	Untested [9]

1. ^ Not supported due to upstream bug
2. ^ USB descriptors are not retrieved
3. a b FireWire descriptors are not retrieved
4. a b PCMCIA CIS is not retrieved
5. ^ Support will come with FreeBSD 12-RELEASE
6. a b c d e macOS only allows talking with MultiMedia devices
7. ^ Support for MultiMedia devices in macOS will be added if users require it
8. a b c Only MultiMedia devices can be supported and descriptors will not be retrieved
9. ^ Should work, untested due to not available hardware