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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Volume Type?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.233416.9220@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 23:34:16 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <hassan.722027702@informatics> <keith-171192142009@kip-16.taligent.com>
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- In article <keith-171192142009@kip-16.taligent.com> keith@taligent.com (Keith Rollin) writes:
- >In article <hassan.722027702@informatics>, hassan@wupost.wustl.edu (Scott
- >Hassan) wrote:
- >>
- >> Does anyone know how to tell whether a particular volume is a CD-ROM
- >> drive?
- >
- >If I can stick a CD-ROM into it and it can read it, it's a CD-ROM drive.
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- A little more seriously, check the drive queue, and see if it's
- removable and read only. If it is, and it's also BIG, it's probably a
- CD-ROM.
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