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Subject: Probing cdrom for presence of disk
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Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 19:02:39 +0200
From: Paul van der Zwan <paulz@trantor.stuyts.nl>
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Is there a way to probe  a cdrom drive for the presence of a disk without 
getting any messages on the console? I am trying to write some software to 
automatically mount a cd if it is inserted in the drive, but filling the 
console with errors is not something I want to happen.

	Paul

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Paul van der Zwan		paulz @ trantor.stuyts.nl
"I think I'll move to theory, everything works in theory..."