Mailing Lists: Apple Mailing Lists
Image of Mac OS face in stamp
 
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Disabling auto-mounting of CDROM

Shayne Wissler wrote: 
Hello,

I'm trying to get OSX to stop automounting the CDROM. This is important for an application I'm writing that uses cdrecord--the automounting conflicts with cdrecord, and I don't need automounting.

I work around this in a script that I wrote to run from the command line that uses cdrecord. The script checks for a mounted CDROM and unmounts it if necessary. The relevant bit is pasted below:

mounted=$(mount | grep -E '/Volumes/[[:digit:]]{8}_[[:digit:]]{6}' | cut -f3 -d\ )
if [[ "${mounted}" != "" ]] ; then
diskutil unmountDisk ${mounted}
fi

Granted that looks for a disc with a name identical to how my script formats the name of the ISO image, so it is a bit fragile in that respect.

If you're already using NSTask or system() to run cdrecord, you could also use it to run diskutil to unmount the disc.

Also, is there some reason that you are using cdrecord instead of Disc Recording framework or hdiutil? I am considering changing my script to use the Apple-provided tools instead of cdrecord/mkisofs.


The first thing I tried was removing disk arbitration:

http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Disabling_Macintosh_Disk_Arbitration_Daemon

That caused repeated crashing of metadata.mds, and eventual kernel panic. So I disabled that daemon. The messages went away but my system still panics after 10min or so.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.


Thanks,
 Shayne Wissler


------------------------------------------------------------------------

 _______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Darwin-dev mailing list      (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/email@hidden

This email sent to email@hidden 

_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Darwin-dev mailing list      (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/email@hidden

This email sent to email@hidden
References: 
 >Disabling auto-mounting of CDROM (From: "Shayne Wissler" <email@hidden>)



Visit the Apple Store online or at retail locations.
1-800-MY-APPLE

Contact Apple | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2007 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.