Ok here is what happens. I stick in the device, and since I know it dosen’t work for mac, nothing comes up. But of course it shows up on the sys profiler, so I know the mac know s its there. So leading up to my question, how can I create my own little script to add basically control everything it does. The device is like a drive, so that would be like add stuff to it, erase stuff. Now I maybe be able to get the source code for the program for windows, but that probably wont happen. Is there is a way to do this or am I way in over my head?
Thanks
~Balthamos
Hello Balthamos,
I have two questions for you which will help me in answering your original query:
1.) Are you using Jaguar or Panther OS (also include the version number, please)?
2.) Since you describe this USB device as a “drive”, have you tried to format it with a disk utility (such as Disk Utility, which comes with your OS or something like Disk Warrior, etc.) yet?
Sincerely,
Variable as the shade
It sounds like what you’re looking for is a driver for the device.
Drivers are usually written in C/C++. In any case, it’s not something you’re going to be able to do via AppleScript. You need a much lower-level language.
As Variable said, though, if the device is a drive and the Mac OS can communicate with it via built-in drivers (not just see it, but actually control it) then you may be able to use AppleScript to manipulate it (e.g. copy files to/from it), but that’s as far as you can go.
Having the source code for the Windows driver might work, but you’ll need some experience in writing device drivers.