Re: New CD-Rom-Code: How detect if cd is in drive?

scott snyder (snyder@d0sgif.fnal.gov)
Fri, 24 May 1996 02:22:04 -0500 (CDT)

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>I am asking because I need a nice way to check if a CD is in the
>drive and ready for operation.

You should be able to use the read subchannel command for polling
the drive. Workman does this, for example.

sss

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