Re: Forcing partition table reading & disabling auto-mounting

FROM : Eric Peyton
DATE : Fri Nov 19 23:39:33 2004

On Nov 19, 2004, at 4:12 PM, Avi Cherry wrote:



> Two semi-related questions here:
>
> 1) Is it possible to force OSX to check for the presence of a recorded
> CD?  I'm using the open-source cdrtools utilities for doing CD burning
> on a custom application and after a CD is burned, the only way I can
> get the OS to recognize the presence of a disk in the drive is by
> ejecting the tray and re-loading it.



Use disktool -r to refresh disk arbitration.  There is no public API
for this on Panther.

>
> 2) How can you temporarily prevent OSX from mounting all volumes on a
> newly-inserted disk?  I need this behavior for verifying the contents
> of the disk.
>


There is no public API for this on Panther.

You can check out DiskArbitration from Darwin and see how this is done.

Eric

>
> I imagine that both of these things are possible, since I've seen this
> behavior in other programs before.  I suspect both may involve the
> Disk Arbitration framework, but it's a private framework with no
> documentation.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
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