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Old 10-16-2009
Power how to detect removable disks or volume in AIX using command

Hi I am new to AIX and any help regarding the same would be really appriciated, thanks In advance.

My priority issue is how to detect from command line that the volume / disk on AIX machine is a USB or removable disk /volume
and if possible can we list out details for that disk / volume
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Old 10-17-2009
try with lsdev command

to see the disks
lsdev -Cc disk

# lsdev -Cc disk
hdisk0 Available Virtual SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk1 Available Virtual SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk2 Available Virtual SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk3 Available Virtual SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk4 Available 01-08-00 SAS Disk Drive
hdisk5 Available 01-08-00 SAS Disk Drive
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