current-users: An easy way to check for new disks?

Subject: An easy way to check for new disks?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Stephen Ma <stephenm@employees.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/15/2002 19:15:36

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> writes:

Peter> Is there an easy way I have not yet spotted to identify when a
Peter> CD has been put in a drive?  (It's an atapi drive, if it
Peter> matters.)

If polling is OK for you, then "scsictl <blah> tur" seems to work. 

- S