Subj : Re: How to detect cdrom tray status (open or closed)
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Mihai Osian
Date : Wed Oct 06 2004 05:42 pm

Sybren Stuvel wrote:

>Sybren Stuvel enlightened us with:
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>>Minderbinder enlightened us with:
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>>>Try looking for the source code of the "eject" utility
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>>I will.
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>Unfortunately, my suspicions were correct. 'eject' doesn't do any
>detection of the tray status. It just sends a CDROMEJECT ioctl when
>you invoke it, and a CDROMCLOSETRAY when you pass it the '-t' option.
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>I want to send CDROMCLOSETRAY only when it's open, and CDROMEJECT only
>when it's closed.
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>Sybren
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 There is a CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS ioctl defined in 
/usr/include/linux/cdrom.h. Perhaps it can help you.

Mihai

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