Thread: burner app can't find right drive

Linux???? You might get a better answer on the Linux-specific board. Standard ANSI/ISO C++ doesn't know anything about CD burners, so you are in the realm of platform-specific programming.

With Windows, the operating system enumerates the hardware devices. Windows is aware of each device's capabilities via the driver/firmware. You can obtain a handle to the device an query it.

You could query each drive to find out if it's a hard drive, floppy drive, CD ROM, CD Burner, etc.


Windows has functions such as:
GetDevice()
GetDeviceID()
GetDeviceCaps()