On Jun 11, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Neil Brewitt wrote:
I'm new to Cocoa, and I want to write an app which as a starting
point enumerates all available mass storage devices, possibly
including CD/DVDs, and presents the user with a list of mounted
devices. Similar to what Installer does to choose the installation
disk, but including non-writeable devices. I need to know which
devices the user has selected.
I've searched for starting points and after extensive web/doc
searching can find some hooks in Darwin and IOKit to find the
devices - but seems unnecessarily complicated for what seems a
commonish task. What is the "right" or "better" way to do this? The
reason I'm posting here is that I was hoping there might be a magic
Cocoa object which just does it for me(!).
Take a look at NSWorkspace, especially its -mountedLocalVolumePaths
and -mountedRemovableMedia methods, as well as its
NSWorkspaceDidMountNotification and NSWorkspaceDidUnmountNotification
notifications.
For more in-depth information without delving into IOKit, check out
the Disk Arbitration Framework. The documentation is largely in the
headers, though.
Cheers,
Ken
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