DVD device detectort

m_pahlevanzadeh · 11-13-2007, 03:01 PM

Dear all,
I wrote a script that it detect my DVD devices.But i have problem when i have more one devices.
Suppose my script founds two dvd devices for example : /dev/hdc & /dev/hdd
How i understand which device consists of DVD.Because my program need to play DVD.my script must knows which device is ready for now.It mean that which device has a DVD-ROM without eject & put a DVDROM.
Please help me....

MS3FGX · 11-13-2007, 07:57 PM

It would probably help if you posted the script. Not really much anyone can do to help you improve it if we can't see it.

m_pahlevanzadeh · 11-13-2007, 11:06 PM

It's my code:

PHP Code:



#!/bin/bash 
###################Written By "Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh" <mohsen@pahlevanzadeh.org> ########################### 
        export parent="/proc/ide"; 
        export loop0=0; 
        export loop1=0; 
        export flag=0; 
        cd  ${parent} 
        for parent_loop0 in `ls` 
        do 
 
                #echo $parent_loop; 
                if [ ! -L "$parent_loop0" ] && [ "$parent_loop0" != "drivers" ] 
                then 
                        let $loop0+1; 
                        cd $parent/$parent_loop0; 
                        for parent_loop1 in `ls` 
                        do 
 
                                if [ "$parent_loop1" != "channel" ] && [ "$parent_loop1" != "mate" ] && [ "$parent_loop1" != "model" ] 
                                then  
 
                                        grep "DVD" $parent/$parent_loop0/$parent_loop1/model 
                                        if [ "$?" -eq "0" ] ;then 
                                                let $loop1+1; 
                                                if [ "$flag" -eq "0" ] ;then 
                                                        mkdir -p /tmp/dvdplayer; 
                                                        export flag=1; 
                                                fi; 
 
                                                ln -s  /dev/$parent_loop1 /tmp/dvdplayer/DVDPlayer$loop1 ; 
 
                                        fi;#end of $? if 
                                          
                                fi;#end of parent_loops if 
                        done 
                fi;#end of $parent_loop0 if 
        done #main loop