On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 15:53 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx 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.