CDROM question

[Cole Tuininga]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:28, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> 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.

Interesting trick, but it seems to react differently on my system.

With no media in the drive:

trogdor:/proc/ide/ide1/hdc# cat capacity
2147483647

I have hdc available through the ide-scsi module - would that make a
difference?

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Cole Tuininga
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