Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Thomas Niederreiter) | Subject | New CD-Rom-Code: How detect if cd is in drive? | Date | Wed, 22 May 1996 15:16:41 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Hi,
I just read the docs about the new CD-Rom-interface and I think its execellent...All the ioctls I waited for so long are there (eg. CHECK_DRIVE_STATUS, CHECK_DISK_STATUS...), but Only a small fraction of the calls are actually working yet... I know its quite bunch of work to implement all these call in all the hardware dependent-drivers. Are there plans to to have this ready when 2.0 comes out?
I am asking because I need a nice way to check if a CD is in the drive and ready for operation. This is easy for SCSI-CD-Rom (send TEST_UNIT_READY and check the returned sense-key), but how can I do this for NON-SCSI-Drives? (As long the above mentioned ioctls are not working).
Thanx for any hints,
Thomas Niederreiter
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