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Disable auto-mount for USB disk drive

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S P Arif Sahari Wibowo

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Mar 2, 2007, 10:06:05 PM3/2/07
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Hi!

Is there anyway to get MacOS X 1.4 (Tiger) not to automatically mount
a USB disk drive when it is plugged in or try to be acessed by a
program? The reason is the program I use need to access this drive in
low level, if it is mounted the program cannot do this.

Thanks!

Jolly Roger

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Mar 3, 2007, 10:42:11 AM3/3/07
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On 2007-03-02 21:06:05 -0600, "S P Arif Sahari Wibowo"
<arif...@gmail.com> said:

More information about the details is needed. Which program, for starters?

If this program is written by you, this is probably better answered in
a comp.sys.mac.programmming.* news group.

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JR

zit

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Mar 4, 2007, 4:08:33 AM3/4/07
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On Mar 3, 11:06 am, "S P Arif Sahari Wibowo" <arifs...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Just ejecting it works for one-off tasks.
Good software does this for you, and remounts when done.
This may be why JR wants to know what software you are using.

If I really needed this, I would try changing
AUTOMOUNT=-YES- to AUTOMOUNT=-NO-
in /etc/hostconfig and rebooting.

This sort of modification should be done carefully,
and should be logged to your changes file.
It is likely to affect other drives.

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