Manually remounting cd-rom drive stinks...

vi0lat0r · 04-06-2004, 10:22 PM

Ok, I went and got the 2.6.5 kernel from kernel.org, but yea of course supermount doesn't come with it. So anyways, I don't feel like downloading kernel-tmb-source (which has supermount) and recompiling (not right now, at least...)

So what I would like to do is have a shell script that does the following:

Code:

fuser /mnt/cdrom
(then it 'grabs' the process # and stores it in, say, $cd)
kill $cd
umount /mnt/cdrom
eject

That would eject the CD rom no matter what. I want it to see if there is a CD in the drive before it tries to eject it, if so then it ejects. And if there is no CD in the drive, then it does:

Code:

eject -t
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

Is this more trouble than it's worth? Should I just go ahead and spend the time compiling another kernel and reinstalling the NVidia drivers?

scott_R · 04-07-2004, 05:21 AM

For something like this, (and to make it easily accessible to whomever, even remotely) you could use a script (using grep/awk/etc.) that checks the output from 'df'. If there is an entry for /dev/cdrom (or whatever you cdrom is), then eject. If there isn't, there isn't likely to be a disk in the drive. This is simple, but has a flaw. If your drive is a cdrw, it won't eject if there's a blank disk in the drive. To overcome this flaw, you need to know a little more about how cd drives work, and then it becomes one of those "if you know this much, you wouldn't be posting this question" kind of things. Then again, you won't typically need a supermount function for a blank disk.

For the simple version, just grep 'df' for '/dev/cdrom' or whatever your device is, and place the result into a variable. Test it to see if it's 'true' or not. If you get no result (no /dev/cdrom in df list), it will be false, any mounted cdrom will return true.

One caveat: Some oddball scripting languages invert true and false (t=0/null, false=anything else). If you're using one of them, you probably already know this, though.

vi0lat0r · 04-07-2004, 08:30 AM

Yep I know about the true/false issue, lol.

I code in PHP, so not to sound incompetent or anything, but what exactly is the code for what you are talking about?

Code:

$cd = grep | df /dev/cdrom
if ($cd = 0) umount /mnt/cdrom
eject
else eject -t
mount /mnt/cdrom

fi

As you can see, I don't code in shell, LOL! So yea, if you could just edit that code or just give me the working one, that would be good. Oh, anything for grabbing the process ID and killing it?

Thanks so much!