as as soon as (as you well know) MacOS X sees the device it will try
to mount it and will fall over (sigh...)
Unless you turn off autodiskmounting. Unsure how to do it right now.
Just "kill -9 diskarbitrationd"? Boot into single user mode?
Then you can use "mount" to do a BSD-level only mount, "hdid -nomount"
to get it automounted but without Finder notification, or "hdituil" to
simulate popping it in again.
Surely you have to play around a little bit.
Perhaps you have even a chance to do a "dd if=/dev/disk3
of=some_other_file_name" to get the disk backed up somewhere in case
you don't manage it to use Apple Software Restore to do a copy. Having
a copy will help Apple engineers a lot to construct a reproducible test
case.
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