Re: how to eject a firewire drive natively
Re: how to eject a firewire drive natively
- Subject: Re: how to eject a firewire drive natively
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:03:03 -0500
You could always use the command-line tool diskutil:
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set posixPath to quoted form of ("/Volumes/" & diskName)
do shell script "diskutil eject " & posixPath
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Ok, oddly enough I just tried this and I'm having problems with it. I
used this script:
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set diskName to "Jedi Academy Disc 1"
-- Jedi Academy Disc 1 is a CD-ROM disk
set posixPath to quoted form of ("/Volumes/" & diskName)
do shell script "diskutil eject " & posixPath
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This ends up producing the command:
diskutil eject '/Volumes/Jedi Academy Disc 1'
Which produces this result in AppleScript:
""
The disk gets removed from the desktop and the entry for it in /Volumes
is also removed, however the disk does not get ejected and the /dev
entry for the disk is still there.
When I do the command directly in the shell the disk is removed from
the desktop, from /Volumes, the /dev entry is removed, and the disk
gets ejected from the drive. This is the result from the command:
Disk /Volumes/Jedi Academy Disc 1 ejected
Can anyone shed some light on this? I can't figure out why a shell
command executed from AppleScript would do this. I even ran the
command in a sh shell session to see if there was some sort of
difference there. It ran exactly the same under sh as it did in tcsh.
-Ken
On Mar 15, 2004, at 7:57 PM, leo wrote:
want to eject a firewrire drive (iPod) in applescript via applescript.
however, i don't want to use the finder function "eject" due to
finder's
non-interceptable message dialogs when the firewire drive is in use.
any idea how i can eject a drive natively or via another more
controllable
method?
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