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. Patrick On 10/11/05, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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? > -- > > ======================================================================= > The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with > commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God > over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the > angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because > she repented. > -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
