Re: Determine whether a cd-rw does an i/o operation

From: Amarios (amarioNO-SPAM_at_in.gr)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:19:45 +0300

Thanks ! Will try the first two options.

Care to explain the third one (hack ...) ? I am not sure i can completly
follow, although it sounds clever ...

Regards
Marios

"J French" <erewhon@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:4107821b.100879832@news.btclick.com...
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:21:26 +0300, "Amarios" <amarioNO-SPAM@in.gr>
> wrote:
>
> >No. Nothing out there. Task Manager has no clue about what is going on.
> >
> >Marios
>
> Just a thought, why not have a look at what is happening using FileMon
> from www.systeminternals.com
>
> It sounds ludicrous, but you might be able to screen scrape it, or dig
> something out of its source code.
>
> There is another thing, try monitoring the file size of something
> being copied to the CD
> Under the FAT system a newly created file always reports a file size
> of zero until it has closed the file
>
> Ah, and there is the hack solution that I am sure will work if you can
> read the CD/DVD from VB while it is writing ...
>
> Create a second file after the first:
> eg:
> Backup.zip
> Backup.done
>
>