My workstation is a walk aways from the box with our CD-RW burner in it, and doing runs of CD's took a while since I had to walk back and forth a lot to do it. I thought about the problem some, and decided that what I needed is a way to get notification of the drive tray close event so that a script could know when to burn the next CD...
I dug around and could not figure out how on my own, so I wrote a note to Jens Axboe at SUSE, who maintains the Linux Kernel CDROM driver code, asking if he knew a way. He sent me a little C program (media_event.c) that did almost what I wanted. I made a few minor changes, and wrote a script I call "autoburner". To use it, you open the tray, put in a blank disk, then type "autoburner <iso_filename>", and close the tray. It will burn the disc, then eject it. You remove that disc, and replace it with another blank, then close the tray, and it starts burning again. You can burn many copies of the same image this way with no need to rerun the cdrecord command. I cannot guarantee it will work with all CD burners... You'll need to get "media_event.c" and "autoburner" from: <URL:http://www.hegbloom.net/~karlheg/> ... to try it. Hope this saves time for other people besides myself. Have a good day and take care. My health is my wealth. -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
