how to distinguish dvd rom or hard disk

[Torsten.]

What do you really want to get?

The DVD or all disks without the DVD?

SAM -> disks will sort this for you, try this.

[Bill Hassell]

> bash-4.0#

This looks like bash is root's shell (# prompt is typically only for root). If this is root's shell in /etc/passwd, you cannot run in single user mode (a very bad thing). bash does not come in an archived library version unless you compile and make one. In single user mode, /usr is not mounted so bash doesn't exist. Only the programs in /sbin will be seen.

And don't copy bash to /sbin because it will required shared libraries found in /usr/lib...still leaving root without any shell in single user mode.

The correct (only) shell for root is /sbin/sh which is not the Bourne shell but the POSIX shell, virtually the same at the command level to bash and ksh. Most notable differences involve interactive features such as arrow keys and command history manipulation.

> ioscan -fnC disk

Add the -k option so ioscan will run about 100 times faster.

[Vishu]

Hi alert0919,

please try this command to get only the disk in your system.

# ioscan -C disk | grep -i -v dvd-rom

It will show all the hard disk only. the logical path to the DVD-ROM, which you see on your last output will be gone this time hopefully. Please try and paste the output.

Thanks

[Vishu]

Hi,

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[alert0919]

Hi, all responser
thanks for your replies
I have solved my question by using command diskinfo
when it is a disk
When i use diskinfo /dsk/rdsk/c0t0d0
it will shows type:direct access
if it is a CD-ROM
When i use diskinfo /dsk/rdsk/c0t0d0
it will shows type:CD-ROM
so I could distingisush them

[alert0919]

thanks for all replies