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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:12:18 +0200
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
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On 07/23/2007 12:52 PM, BuraphaLinux Server wrote:

> #!  /bin/bash
> drive="sda"
> vendor=$(</sys/block/${drive}/device/vendor)
> if [[ "${vendor}" = "ATA     " ]]
> then
>  printf "SATA\n"
> else
>  printf "SCSI\n"
> fi
> exit 0

This is probably not a useful comment and a reasonable script in your local 
setting but still thought I'd point out that these days most anything is 
sda, so if !SATA it can generally also be USB, or FW, or ...

Rene.