Re: Detecting CDROM insertion

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 09:26:17 +0100


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...

Gerd

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