Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hoptoad!tim
From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: code to erase/format a mounted volume...
Message-ID: <8917@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 5 Nov 89 13:42:04 GMT
References: <57892@tiger.oxy.edu> <1679@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <57892@tiger.oxy.edu> sonenbli@oxy.edu (Andrew D. Sonenblick) writes:
>     Ok, short and sweet: do you have code that will erase a mounted
>   volume?  If you do, please send a copy to me at sonenbli@oxy.edu

In article <1679@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (M. A. Pasek) writes:
>Why would you want to do this, when the "Erase Disk" selection of the "Special"
>menu will accomplish this for you ?  Anyway, it sounds definitely dangerous,
>and probably not "nice", either.

The answer is:  You use the Disk Initialization Package documented in
Inside Mac, volume II, chapter 14.  Note that drive numbers are not
used very often, so be sure you understand them first.  You can get
the drive number associated with a volume from the ioVDrvInfo member
returned from PBHGetVInfo.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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