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how to distinguish dvd rom or hard disk

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
============================================================================
disk 0 0/0/2/0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE EAC DVD-ROM DW-224EV
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
disk 1 0/1/1/0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GST373454LC
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0
disk 2 0/1/1/0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GST373454LC
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0

I would like to distinguish hard disk and dvd rom
I use ioscan -fnC disk command
but I only want to show hard disk ,not include DVD-ROM
which command i can finish it

thanks

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You cant like that... DVD is belongs to disk class...
Your only choice left is by HW address, in your case:

Code:

ioscan -k -H 0/1 |grep disk

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