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Article #13351Re: Determining disk devices
From: Chuck McManis
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 21:28
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 21:28
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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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!stpeter!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Determining disk devices Message-ID: <129934@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 5 Jan 90 21:28:14 GMT References: <331@sed170.HAC.COM> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 11