ANN: New USB Drive Library

[Phil Davis]

Thanks Ken - I'll add this in the next release. Hopefully I can come up with a 
Windows solution too. (Or someone can volunteer one!) I would like to avoid 
functional disparity between platforms as much as possible, but we're limited to 
what we're able to discover. That's why communities are so great - there's a 
huge body of knowledge represented here!

I will happily give credit in the lib comments to anyone whose code I add to the 
lib to make the various feature requests work. Ken, you get first mention!  :o)

If anyone knows how to get this same bunch of info on a Linux system, I would be 
happy to include that as well.

Thanks for the help -
Phil


Ken Ray wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:54:41 -0700, Phil Davis wrote:
> 
>> If I understand correctly, you're talking about the difference 
>> between unmounting the drive and unplugging it. The ability to 
>> unmount a drive would be nice. When I learn how to unmount a device 
>> from the command line on Win & Mac, I'll add it to this library.
>>
>> (If anyone already knows, feel free to jump in!)
> 
> For OS X, first do this:
> 
>   diskutil list
> 
> And then extract the list of disks (/dev/disk0, /dev/disk1, etc.). 
> Then, for each disk, do:
> 
>   diskutil info <disk>
> 
> and then parse for "Protocol: USB" and "Ejectable: Yes". Then you have 
> a list of mounted USB drives. Then to unmount a drive, execute:
> 
>   disutil unmountdisk <disk>
> 
> I'm not sure how to do it on Windows...
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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