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Leopard Sample Code: Hardware & Drivers
Mass storage devices run the gamut from the fastest read/write peripheral disk drives to sequential-access tape drives. Mac OS X provides a layered mass storage driver stack that has built-in support for common industry-standard devices. Developers can use the BSD interface and I/O Kit APIs to access storage devices and their media at different layers of the stack.

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SimpleUserClient (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to create a user client for an I/O Kit kernel driver.
2008-08-27
CustomMediaIcons (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Providing custom media icons for storage
2007-07-10
SMARTQuery (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstration of how to access and use S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring functionality
2007-05-30
SCSIHBAEmulator (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstration of how to implement a virtual parallel tasking SCSI host bus adapter (HBA)
2007-02-20
SCSIOldAndNew (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates a backward-compatible technique for communicating with SCSI parallel devices on Mac OS X.
2006-12-07
USBPrivateDataSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates notifications when a USB device is hotplugged and associating arbitrary data with each device.
2006-10-16
VolumeToBSDNode (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to iterate across all mounted volumes and retrieve their BSD node names.
2006-10-16
VendorSpecificType00 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to access vendor-specific storage device functionality using a simple interface from user space code.
2006-10-02
CDROMSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to find CD-ROM media and read sectors from that media on Mac OS X.
2006-01-31
SampleFilterScheme (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates a simple filter scheme which passes all operations through to its provider unchanged.
2006-01-03
AudioCDSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to discover audio CDs and access the TOC information presented by the CD-DA filesystem.
2005-10-04
CD-ROM Detection (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to determine whether a drive is a CD-ROM drive.
2003-01-14