Re: Monitoring program
How about cat /dev/fd0 will that work?
Ron Rademaker
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote:
> That only works on normal floppies. If I have a boot floppy in there that
> was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly. But
> they will still boot from them.
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> Brian Schramm
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> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
>
> > Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a
> > disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not...
> >
> > Ron Rademaker
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a
> > > disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine? I control
> > > machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a
> > > drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will
> > > do what I want.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > Brian Schramm
> > > brian@schramms.yi.org
> > > www.linuxexpert.org
> > >
> > >
> > >
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