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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Determining disk devices
Message-ID: <9223@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Jan 90 14:42:20 GMT
References: <331@sed170.HAC.COM>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <331@sed170.HAC.COM> lee@sed170.UUCP (John Lee) writes:
>
>My question is simple.  How do you make sure you locate only disk devices,
>and not merely all devices that are resident and have a name?

Well, until the recent spate of handlers, there was a packet or
two that could tell the difference between a handler and a filesystem...
(and there will be a way again in the future)

For now (and, if you always want to be safe) run through the list
twice, and only report the devices that have matching volume nodes.

		andy
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