Program to check for presense of CD?

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:53:03PM -0400, Marc M wrote:
> What about the mount utility, it will show you what is mounted and you can
> see the devices listed. What are you trying to accomplish with this, is is a
> remote machine or something that you need to closely monitor or what?
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/11/05, patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering if there's any program in Fedora that can check to see
> > if there is a CD in the drive? I was using a low-level scsi utility on
> > OpenBSD, but we're moving to Linux now.
> >
> > Any recommendations would be appreciated.
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> > --
Top posting again. Please don't. The question is somewhat obscure
because mount will tell you if the CD mounted (which should happen
auto-magically) however it will not tell you that there is a CD in the
drive that maybe failed to mount. So the question is which do you
really want to find out?
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