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From: stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to tell if a volume is a floppy drive?
Message-ID: <9874@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 90 23:52:08 GMT
References: <1517@ntmtv.UUCP> <9794@goofy.Apple.COM> <7796@gollum.twg.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <7796@gollum.twg.com> lefty@twg.com (David N. Schlesinger) writes:
>In article <9794@goofy.Apple.COM> Steve Christensen writes:
>> Check the ioVFSID field after doing the PBHGetVInfo() call.  HFS (Mac) disks
>> have an ID of zero.  Others are non-zero, but I can't remember what ID
>> AppleShare volumes use.
>
>This is not a reliable test.  _Any_ external file system volume (CD-ROMs, 
>NFS "volumes", etc.) will have a non-zero FSID.  Additionally, I don't 
>believe that AppleShare can use a fixed non-zero FSID for its own volumes; 
>it has to derive a value for the FSID based on any other non-zero FSIDs in 
>use the first time an AppleShare volume is mounted.

Well I didn't mean to simply test if it's non-zero and assume it's an
AppleShare volume.  I simply pointed out that its file system ID was
non-zero and that hopefully someone else would know what to do at that
point...

steve

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