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Re: How can I get Hard Disks(ATA) and Removable media(USB) attached to my system??

Subject: Re: How can I get Hard Disks(ATA) and Removable media(USB) attached to my system??
From: Kevin Elliott <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:08:31 -0700
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Alternatively, it sounds like most of what you want can be handled through IOKit, with a little bit of Carbon.

You can use IOKit to scan for IOMedia objects, then filter what's returned by check the "Leaf" property on that IOObject. Through IOKit you can also determine bus, capacity, Internal/External, and dev node. Then you can use carbon to map partions to volume names, etc... If you need more clarification let me know.

Probably the biggest advantage over DiskArb would be running on more OS versions- DiskArb has change pretty dramatically over OS revisions and only became a public framework on, I think, 10.4. I believe if you built on 10.4 it would run on 10.3, but on anything older than 10.3 the API is much harder to use, and I don't think your app would run. Dan would know for sure.

At 12:16 -0400 on 9/2/05, Dan Markarian wrote:

You might want to check out Disk Arbitration.

On 2 Sep 2005, at 5:30 AM, darpan kamboj wrote:
 Hi all
I want to get the Hard disks and Removable media attached to my system and capacity of disks. Actually i want to raw read the hard disk. Currently i am picking the hard disks from "/dev/disk*" here * may be 1,2,3 depending upon the hard disks attached to system.

My problem is : 1) In case OS installed in any other language other than english then i am not able to pick the hard disks.
 2) I am not able to get capacity of hard disks.
3) I am not able to differenciate whether this is removable media or hard disk.

How I can get hard disks attached,capacity,Serial no. of hard disks so that i can raw read the hard disk.
 Thanks and Regards
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