<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keybounce@gmail.com" target="_blank">keybounce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
On 2016-04-02, at 6:15 AM, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 3:55 AM, Paul Rands <<a href="mailto:paul0075r@gmail.com">paul0075r@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > It is a music cataloging program called Tellico, and is a KDE app. Apart from not being > able to open up a CD / DVD drive, it works flawlessly.<br>
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> The Finder "owns" the CD/DVD drive; you would have to disable Finder support for the drive to be able to use it directly instead of via OS X services.<br>
<br></span>How do you disable Finder's ownership of the DVD drive?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can;t turn it off completely without disabling all automounting, as I understand it.</div><div>You can do it as a one-shot by using "diskutil list" to see what device (diskN) the DVD is (this is dynamic and will depend on what other fixed and removable media is mounted) and then "diskutil unmint diskN" to unmount it; the automount stuff will then ignore the drive until you are done with it and either "diskutil mount" or "diskutil eject" it.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Why does Finder own it?<br>
What service/benefit does Finder provide by owning it?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Automounting, primarily. Opening Finder windows when you insert a CD or DVD.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
And how then does Disk Utility do it's stuff?<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Uses OS X services to release the drive, as I mentioned earlier.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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