Re: How to eject a USB Hard drive
Re: How to eject a USB Hard drive
- Subject: Re: How to eject a USB Hard drive
- From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:58:23 -0800
--- At Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:18:24 +0530, Elango C wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am currently trying to eject the USB Drive by writing a small
>carbon application. Can you guys can give me some idea.
>
>FYI: I tried calling the Diskutil using System call
>
>system ("diskutil eject disk1");
>
>but the volume present in the disk1 gets unmounted but the device
>is not getting ejected. (i.e. After doing this If I open the Diskutilty
>application I am able see the USB HDD entry) but if I click on the
>eject button from the Diskutilty then the entries are disappeared from
>the diskutility app.
>
>Dear guys please help me on this issue.
Try unmountdisk instead of eject.
You can do all this from the DiskArbitration framework as well.
...Duane
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