[NTLUG:Discuss] detect disk in cdrom

[Greg Edwards]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "joseph beasley" <joe_beasley at yahoo.com>
>>To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
>>Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:18 AM
>>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] detect disk in cdrom
>>
>>
>>
>>>Is there a way to detect a disk in a cdrom?  I'm writing a script to
>>>backup to my CDRW each night, but I need the script to abort if I
>>>forget to put a cd in before I leave.
>>>
>>>The script is just a shell script using mkisofs and cdrecord.
>>>
>>
> 
> What about doing a 'cdrecord -inq'   # -inq do an inquiry for the drive and
> exit.  does that return any usable info?
> 
> --
> Richard

Mandrake has a tool called "supermount" that will probably have the code 
in it to tell you what to do.  It's part of the Mandrake distrib and is 
Open Sourced.

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