Thank you all for your ideas. With various suggestions, I found a variation of
the CDRomSample
code that seems to work well. The sample does reads on the BSN Name of
the device root (i.e. /dev/rdisk#). I have found that if I dig a
little deeper into the IORegistry for the device (i.e. /dev/rdis
colors wrote:
I am running into a problem with anti-virus software. I need to be
able to read a file from a USB CD and I need the read to actually
go over the USB bus.
Why do you need the read to go over the USB bus? If the OS itself
has cached some disk data, why force it to be transf
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:26 PM, colors wrote:
> I have also considered making SCSI Read calls or USB Read calls, but it looks
> like I will only be allowed to do this if I make my own kext.
If you are able to interpret the CD's filesystem on your own, would it
work to read the CD's sectors from
I am running into a problem with anti-virus software. I need to be able to
read a file from a USB CD and I need the read to actually go over the USB bus.
I have been just doing fopen, fread, fclose, etc. and that all works; although,
I do set the file to F_NOCACHE with fcntl to make sure that I
