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Subject: Re: is there a disc in the drive?
From: James Stevenson <james@stev.org>
To: Adam Hunt <adam.r.hunt@gmx.net>
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Hi

open the cd drive in non blocking mode then
do some ioctls to get the info you require.

or cdrecord i think has an option to dump the info.

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 21:02, Adam Hunt wrote:
> Is there a simple way of determining if there is a disc in a CD/DVD drive?  
> Something in /proc would be nice.  Is there any other sort of information 
> availble such as what type of disc is in the drive? 
>  


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