Program to check for presense of CD?

[Mike McCarty]

patrick wrote:
> I was needing to know if there's a CD in a drive so that I could
> attempt to mount it if something was in there. The scsi utility I was
> using on OpenBSD would query the drive at a low level, and would
> report back if it found media in the drive. For now, I will just
> attempt to run "mount /dev/cdrom" -- its exit value tells me if it was
> successful in mounting a CD, and that seems to work just fine. The
> automount service wasn't working for me, and I don't have the time to
> fiddle with it to figure out why not.

You could build a cron job which runs every 5 seconds and attempts a mount.

:-)

More seriously, you should find out what is wrong.

Mike
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