MMC-TOOL(1)

💿 MMC-TOOL(1) — the mmc-tool era 💿

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about libcdio Multimedia commands and honestly? it's giving main character energy for your optical drive. this little icon lives in the User Commands section of the manual, so you already know it's a real one. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

mmc-tool — libcdio Multimedia commands 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mmc-tool [OPTION...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically mmc-tool issues libcdio Multimedia commands. that's the whole vibe. it talks to your drive, your drive listens, everyone's happy. ✨

and here's the part you cannot skip, bestie: operations happen in the order you give the options. order matters. it's a queue, not a vibe-based free-for-all. 🫶

also — and this is lowkey the best part — a given operation may appear more than once, and if you do that, it just runs more than once. want it twice? say it twice. slay. 💖

🌈 options: 🌈

• -b, --blocksize[=INT] — sets the blocksize. if you give no block size, or a blocksize of zero, it just returns the current setting instead. no cap.
• -C, --drive-cap [6|10] — prints mode sense 2a data, and you pick the form: 6-byte or 10-byte. choose your fighter. ⭐
• -c, --close drive — closes the drive via ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL. doors closed, boundaries set. 🚪✨
• -e, --eject [drive] — ejects the drive via ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL and an MMC START/STOP command. bye bye disc, we hardly knew ye. 👋💿
• -I, --idle — sets the CD-ROM to idle or powers it down via the MMC START/STOP command. nap time fr fr. 😴
• -i, --inquiry — prints HW info via INQUIRY. it's literally the drive telling you about itself. main character moment. 👑
• -m, --mcn — gets the media catalog number (AKA the UPC). 🍓
• -s, --speed-KB=INT — sets the drive speed to SPEED kilobytes per second. note bestie: 1x = 176 KB/s. 📈
• -S, --speed-X=INT — sets the drive speed to INT X. same note, same energy: 1x = 176 KB/s. 🔥
• -V, --version — displays version and copyright info, then exits. a quick lil bow before leaving. 🎀

💜 Help options: 💜

• -?, --help — shows this help message. you are here. 🗺️
• --usage — displays the brief usage message. the tl;dr version, we love her. 💅

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2003-2005, 2007-2008, 2011-2015, 2017 R. Bernstein

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. and listen — there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. like, none. zero. don't come for her if your drive acts up. 😭

Have driver: GNU/Linux ioctl and MMC driver Have driver: cdrdao (TOC) disk image driver Have driver: bin/cuesheet disk image driver Have driver: Nero NRG disk image driver No CD-ROM device found. 💀

so yeah, that last line is a little heartbreaking but we move. 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie — mmc-tool version 2.0.0, dated January 2018. go forth and eject things responsibly. 🦋✨💖