Recognizing burned CDs

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 07:29:08 PDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:20 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> In
> 
>   https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8670
> 
> the reporter noticed that if you burn a CD, hal does not notice the
> new volume after the burning finished. It's not the worst bug in the
> world, and I see that this is pretty tricky since burning does not
> generate a hotplug event.
> 
> Does anybody have a good idea how this could be achieved? Is there a
> way to notify hald to re-read a volume? Or can a hotplug event be
> synthesized?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any idea,

Maybe try libhal_device_rescan ?

Richard.



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