Re: Detecting CDROM insertion

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:48:26 +0100 (MET)


On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, teunis wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Gerd Knorr wrote:
>
> > In article <19971113191136.62531@edgar.edmunds.com>, you wrote:
> > >Is there any linux way to _immediately_ detect the insertion of a CDROM?
> >
> > No. The only way is polling once every five second or so...
>
> Possible on SCSI AFAIK....
> <grin>

And how does it work?

Gerd