script help

thnkrh · 03-19-2006, 03:45 PM

I'm writing a script and I'm performing basic sanity checks. One of the checks needed is to see if a floppy is inserted in the drive. The floppy doesn't need to be mounted so I'm just trying to use the quickest, dirtiest way to find out if a disk is in the drive. For example a command that returns a value of 0 if disk is there or a non-zero value if it isn't in the drive.

mikshaw · 03-19-2006, 05:18 PM

I don't think you can do it without actually trying to mount the drive.
You could run a mount command and then
if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then umount /dev/fd0; fi

thnkrh · 03-20-2006, 04:13 PM

Alright, thanks for the help.