Re: Monitoring program

[Bob McGowan <rmcgowan@veritas.com>]

You could try mounting, if that fails then use dd to try and read the
device.  If it succeeds, then there is a disk there but without a normal
filesystem.  You might then assume it is a special boot image floppy, or
if you know what sort of magic information to look for, you could try
checking for that, too.

Just some thoughts, I've never tried to do anything like this.

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.
> 
> Brian Schramm
> brian@schramms.yi.org
> www.linuxexpert.org
> 
> 
> 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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Bob McGowan
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