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u : usb@lists.apple.com 17 January 2006 • 2:44AM -0500

RE: Unmounting the Volume of a disk connected to the USB Device
by Barry Twycross

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At 10:14 AM -0800 1/16/06, Barry Twycross wrote:

>The way we do that is to have a process running before the device is
>plugged in.  That grabs the device and stops it mounting in the
>first place. I'm not sure of the details of how that works, but from
>a user point of view they run the updater and it says "Please plug
>in <device name>".
>
>We let the user deal with the messy aspects of unmounting etc.

That's not quite right, the updater will attempt to unmount the
device if it is already mounted. However that can fail, and it then
asks the user to fix the problem.

I've always used the updater by running it first, then plugging in the device.
--
Barry Twycross
BarryT@Appl...
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          USB, it's not a Dyslexic BUS.        (Thanks to TC.)
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