site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Jesper, Dan On 2 May 2005, at 5:52 AM, Jesper Papmehl wrote: Hello! Thanks for any help! /Jesper Papmehl Propellerheads _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Disk Arbitration SPIs do continue to work on Tiger. What do you do with the port you are handed back in DiskArbStart()? Do you add it do your run loop? You must add it to your run loop in order to service it and have your notifications fire. You can also use DiskArbMsgLoop() to service it as an alternative. You may ask how some applications do work on Panther even with the oversight. The port from the SPI is a global port, for historical reasons. You may get lucky in case someone else in your application does do the right thing by adding it to the main run loop. It was probably File Manager. File Manager has since moved onto the new APIs. You must service the port you are handed back to be sure to receive notifications. The same is true of the new APIs, which are also present on Panther, and most other notification APIs, as a general rule. You can take a look at the disktool.c sample code, in the DiskArbitration project, to see how to service that port with a run loop on the old SPI. You are welcome to use the new API as well. You may sign up with DARegisterDiskPeekCallback() and claim your disk in that callback with DADiskClaim(). We have an app that reads (removable) disks that uses a file system that Mac OS X doesn't recognize. We have been using the DiskArbitration API to make the OS ignore the disks as they are inserted, to prevent the "disk cannot be read" dialog from appearing. This has been working fine, until Tiger, where it stopped working because the DiskArbitration API has been completely redesigned. (Not that I'm complaining, I know that we have been using a private, unsupported API.) I have not been able to find any documentation for the new API (apart from the brief comments in the headers), and I'm having a bit of trouble getting started. What I want to do is to get notified whenever a disk is about to be mounted, and then tell the OS to ignore the disk. Does anyone know how to do this using the Tiger version of DiskArbitration? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com