Program to check for presense of CD?

[Michael A. Peters]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 15:53 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>  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.

Also, headless systems usually don't mount a CD on insertion - and it
would be nice to have a simple way to poll the device to find out if it
has a CD in it.