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Re: Enumerating disks and partitions?

The document "Accessing Hardware from Applications", which I found under Darwin's developer help has most of what I want, in the section where it shows how to find a CDROM drive's /dev pathname.

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Darwin/General/AccessingHardware/AccessingHardware.pdf

I tried it by iterating over IOMedia objects that had an ejectable property of false, and got "disk0" and a bunch of slices like "disk0s0".

There are various properties that I can query from the objects, so I think I can identify which ones are normal filesystem partitions (Macs use partitions for the classic driver and the partition map itself, so I don't want to display those).

I'm not sure yet how I can get the manufacturer and model name of the drive but hopefully it is one of the strings I can retrieve from the object's I'm iterating over.

Mike

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Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
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