On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 09:13 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > udev replaced HAL, along with some additional helpers. udev has a > > database too, much like HAL. You can use libudev or libgudev (if you > > use glib) to talk to udev and get information. > > Ok, I found python-gudev which lets me talk to udev! > > And I thought the documentation on UDisks was poor. The only > documentation in the package is a README file with a bad link and a > test program. Well, a google search for "udisks documentation" brings up: http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/udisks/ which pretty much describes the udisks D-Bus interface for udisks 1.x, which is what ships in Fedora 15 at least. Dan > > >> I've worked around that for testing the property > >> "DriveMediaCompatibility" > 0 since it returns an array but this would > >> also pick up flash card readers, zip, and jaz drives. I'll have to > >> modify that to look for "optical" on the front of any members of the > >> array. > >> > >> Second, I can not find any property that reports the disc capacity. > >> The only property that looked close is "DriveSize" but for a blank > >> disc this reports the same as the SectorSize, 2048. > > > > UDISKS_PARTITION_SIZE > > I'm thinking the equivalent in the python wrapper is "PartitionSize". > The problem is that it AND "DeviceSize" both report 2048... > > Right now I'm using the test program provided with python-gudev and I > think I'm making headway. It has a property "ID_TYPE" that is "cd" for > optical drives so that's one problem down. Now I just have to figure > out how to: > > 1. Get the drive capacity. > 2. Get the media state. > 3. Detect and properly handle media changes. > > Thanks, > Richard > > Thanks, > Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
