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Re: CD drives on vax



On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:49:32AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:

> Ideally I'd like sysinst to be able to default to the "right" cd
> device when possible, by detecting if a scsi cd* or MSCP ra* CD drive
> is attached.

Sysctl hw.disknames lists them, we only need to check for ra* on vax.

Is there a way to test wether a ra* cd drive has a medium inserted?
Sysinst uses TEST UNIT READY on scsi/atapi devices via a special ioctl,
we could add support for that to the ra driver.

Martin


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