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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: Probing cdrom for presence of disk 
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How about hacking up a script using scsi(8) to perform a test unit ready
SCSI command?  This should complete without error even with no media
inserted in the device.

louie