How to tell if item is a folder or volume with applescript or shell script?

I am working on a service in Automator that will eject the selected drive when it is finished. Unfortunately automator can only tell the difference between files and folders for the service menu.
Im wondering if if i can use an applescript or shell script that would check if the selected folder is a volume or folder and quit the action if its a folder. I figure the best way to do this is have it determine if the items path is in /Volumes/, but i am completely new to the process and have no idea how to do this.
My automator workflow looks like:
Ask for Confirmation
Get Selected Finder Items
Shell Script
I have the path of the folder selected being passed into the shell script, but after its in there i dont know how to determine if its a volume or not.
Thanks!

K T,
I completely missed that section of the forums, sorry
Neil,
I had that kind of script set up but it was like this:
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Finder"
kind of item parameters
end tell
end run
And i just figured out that i had to change the first line to "on run {parameters}" and now it works great.
Thanks for the help, it got me going in the right direction

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