in reply to Re^4: How do I know when a USB device is inserted?
in thread How do I know when a USB device is inserted?

I thought I had such a program in the DBD::WMI distribution, but I didn't. I've added the following example to (the next release of) DBD::WMI, and it works and tells me the added/removed drive letter:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w package main; use strict; use DBI; use Data::Dumper; my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:WMI:'); my $sth = $dbh->prepare(<<WQL); SELECT * FROM __instanceoperationevent WITHIN 5 WHERE TargetInstance ISA 'Win32_LogicalDisk' and TargetInstance.Name != 'C:' WQL $sth->execute(); # loops forever while (defined (my $row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref())) { my $ev = $row->[0]; # Windows XP only :( print "Class\t",$ev->Path_->Class,"\n"; for (qw(Name DeviceID Caption MediaType InterfaceType)) { print join "\t", $_, ($ev->TargetInstance->{$_} || '<none>'); print "\n"; if ($ev->Path_->Class eq '__InstanceCreationEvent') { print "Device (letter) $ev->{TargetInstance}->{Name} added +\n"; } } }

The restriction on .InterfaceType to "USB" does not work, because the Win32_LogicalDisk does not have that property, unfortunately. So you'll have to hope that the added drive letter actually corresponds to the/a USB drive.

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Re^6: How do I know when a USB device is inserted?
by ZJ.Mike.2009 (Scribe) on Mar 06, 2010 at 14:24 UTC

    Great! Thanks, Corian! The code works like charm :)

    Just a small itsy bitsy problem with one of my USB flash disks but that is because that USB device has two partitions, one as a fake, an emulated bootable CD-ROM and the other as a normal USB flash partition. But it generally works like charm! Thanks, Corian, I really appreciate your help. DBD::WMI is awesome. I like it :)