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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Determining disk devices
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Date: 5 Jan 90 21:28:14 GMT
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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?

Check for an ENVIRONMENT vector. Or send an ACTION_DISK_INFO packet to 
the Task you found and see if it knows what to do with it.

--Chuck McManis
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