Re: Making external drive non-removable

On 03/07/2008, Douglas Alan wrote in message
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> Does anyone know if there is a way of mounting an external drive under
> OS X so that it is considered non-removable by OS X?

If there were such a thing it would probably be an option for the 'mount'
command.  There's no such option.  The removability status is normally set
by the driver for the device involved: it knows what kind of device it's
driving and therefore whether it's removable.

> I.e., if for some reason an internal disk drive (or the boot disk)
> hiccups, the OS patiently waits for it to get better.

I'm not familiar with the connection between the two things.  And I don't
think you're right.  The driver for a device is more likely to be the
thing that decides whether the device is going to come back soon or not.

Simon.
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