[ale] Detetcting a DVD in the drive?

[scott mcbrien]

IIRC cdrecord has an option to do a "test run", part of the run would
include verifying that there is media.  Maybe you do a test run, and upon
successful completion, kick off the real thing?
-Scott

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Robert L. Harris <robert.l.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>   I am trying to write a script for a friend to automatically dump an
> ISO to a
> DVD, but I am looking for a way to detect a DVD in the drive.  Anyone have
> a way to do this?   "mt -f /dev/cdrom status" fails, unsurprisingly....
>
> Robert
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