Re: Which drive is a CD in?
Re: Which drive is a CD in?
- Subject: Re: Which drive is a CD in?
- From: Clark Martin <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 02:34:07 -0700
At 9:55 AM +0100 5/20/07, Ruth Bygrave wrote:
One of the annoying things to me as a switcher
is that it's relatively easy to figure out where
a disc is mounted in Windows, because of the
drive notation, but it seems to be relatively
difficult on the Mac, because all the obvious
things seem to shuffle about irritatingly based
on name.
If, for example, you're checking two backup
discs and you put them into each of two optical
drives, they just appear as two copies of a disc
with the same name. IMO the physical mount point
should appear on the Finder's "Get Info"
properties sheet exactly for this reason. If I
look at a pair of backup discs the
immediately-visible information on a file on
those discs is something like
"/Volumes/DiscName/theFile" versus
"/Volumes/DiscName 1/theFile" which is not a
heck of a lot of use unless you remember which
one you put in first...
1) At user (non-scripting) level -- is there
something really obvious I'm missing which shows
where the physical mount point is?
System Profiler (via Apple Menu - About this Mac
- More Info or the Utilities Folder) shows each
physical drive (by ATA or other ID) and the
volume name. Disk Utility may also provide the
info you want (also in the Utilities Folder).
Under OS 9 the Get Info box did show the drive ID. FWIW
Personally, in 22 years of Mac use, I've rarely needed such info.
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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