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From: Eliot.Henry@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: determining if a drive is a hard drive
Keywords: drive queue hard drive tough problems not enough info etc
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Date: 8 Oct 90 13:04:36 GMT
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  I want to ignore remote drives (the program erases drives and uses low level
calls to do it besides even if i could treat the remote drives the same I don't
want to erase them) I want to determine what hard drives are connected and their
volume names. It seems like such a simple problem. Someone must have done it.
This is a reply to the person who said "what exactly do you need to know"
I also need to determine if each hard drive is a scsi device so i can treat
it differently.

So far the best sounding answer i have suggests going through the drive queue
looking for drives with driver numbers other than -5 that are unejectable and
have a certain minimum size.

Eliot Henry

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