On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:35:39PM +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> > You may be able to do what you want in hardware though; if you can disconnect
> > the eject switch from the CD circuitery and connect it in place of the ATX
> > power switch.
> > Or maybe just remove the eject button ?
> 
> It's for a public program <www.m-o-o-t.org> to be used on many machines, so
> regrettably that wouldn't be practical :)

You might be able to create a kernel thread that polls the CDROM frequently.
(or polls it when it is not being actively read from)
If you think about the "Automatic Insert Notification" that Windows does, it
is basically just polling the media status on the drive at an interval.

If you get a "media not inserted" status, power off. :)

-Andrew