Need a little X11 help concerning CD-Rs.

[themacko]

I found this CD burning software called X-CD-Roast that I installed and runs (yipee!) in X11. It all seems to work fine, except for the fact that when I put in a CD-ROM to burn, as soon as the Finder reads the CD this X-CD-Roast program no longer has control over that drive.

So, what I need to do is kill the Auto Disk Mount feature in OSX so the finder won't read the CD-ROMS and I can use them in this UNIX app (I'm getting all this from this app's Read-Me).

What it says I have to do is this:

ps -ax lfgrep autodiskmount

sudo kill -STOP <pid>

My problem is I can't tell which pid number to use. Here's a screenshot:

http://homepage.mac.com/scottmackey/.Pictures/misc/cd-roast.jpg

 

[lurk]

Ah I see your problem the 'l' (el) you typed should have been a '|' (pipe) if you type that you should only get one or two lines and be good to go.

-Eric

 

[themacko]

Ahh that was it. Thanks lurk!

 

[Darkshadow]

That could be a pain, 'cause if you forget to restart autodiskmount then you'll have a hard time figuring out why something isn't mounting later (Yes, I saw the docs sayin that too).

Scott - ya didn't say, and I couldn't tell from the little I saw of the read me in the pic - is this the Finder taking over the blank CDs in the recorder?

If it is then:

Open the CDs & DVDs preference pane in System Preferences, and set When you insert a blank CD: to either Ask what to do or Ignore. That'll keep the Finder from taking control of it.

If it's not, then disregard that.

I used to use X-CD-Recorder when I used Linux - now why didn't I think of reinstalling it? 'Course, Toast is working fine for me. Probably why I didn't think of it.

 

[themacko]

Actually once I ran that command to disable autodiskmount, everything was okay. Thanks, though.

I just wanted to say that X-CD-Roast worked perfectly in copying a Windows CD-ROM that OS X couldn't read/duplicate. I certainly wasn't going to spend $100 on Toast to do this task, but it is so awesome that I had the option to use this UNIX app to do it. This was also my first experience with UNIX so I pat myself on the back!