dvd_drive_status

This program is a successor to the small program tray_open (which also inspired this one). trayopen works great, but it doesn't poll two things: if the drive is busy or if it has media. dvd_drive_status adds that feature plus a few more.

The reason this program was written, was because I was having problems having programs access the DVD drive before it is ready. Duplication is simple.

• Open your DVD tray
• Put a DVD in (yes I realize these steps are stupid, bear with me)
• Leave the tray open, and run a command that accesses the drive, such as lsdvd
• The DVD tray will close
• lsdvd (or whatever program) will try to access the disc while the drive is still not ready
• get frustrated