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detecting drives

Posted by sasi (sasi), 19 July 2003
Hi,
I am trying to write a small Perl script which can detect
IDE, SCSI, USB drives. Could anyone please help me with this?

Thanks  a lot

Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 20 July 2003
I've done something similar to detect graphics boards; this is very operating system dependent - I was using Solaris at the time, and had a script that was looking in the /dev and /devices directory  (Background - as support specialist for an add on board supplier, I needed to be able to check whether a non-working installation wasn't working because of badly or un-installed drivers, or simplyu because the box couldn't see the hardware!).

As well as /dev and friends, you might want to read up about the -b operator which is used to test whether a named file is a block special device.


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