CDROM question

[Bruce Dawson]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 15:54, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> 
> Random question for y'all - does anybody know of a common and relatively
> simple way to determine:
> ...
> B) If there is a disc in the drive?

If /proc/ide/hdb/capacity contains a non-zero number, then there's a CD
in the drive. (Assuming you have a cd drive at /dev/hdb). This appears
to work for both audio and data cdroms.

--Bruce
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