Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not...
Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a > disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine? I control > machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a > drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will > do what I want. > > Brian > > Brian Schramm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.linuxexpert.org > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >