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Chapter 5 - Disk Initialization Manager

This chapter describes the Disk Initialization Manager, the part of the Operating System that allows you to initialize disks and erase the contents of previously initialized disks. The Disk Initialization Manager provides a routine that allows you to present the standard user interface for initializing and naming disks. It also provides routines that allow you to initialize disks without presenting that standard user interface.

You need to read this chapter if your application does not mask out disk-inserted events. When your application receives a disk-inserted event, it must determine whether the
inserted disk is valid. If the disk is not valid, your application can use the Disk Initialization Manager to present the user with the standard interface for initializing the disk.

To use this chapter, you should already be familiar with the Event Manager, which sends your application a disk-inserted event whenever a disk is inserted (unless you have masked out such events). You need to examine the message field of that event to determine whether the inserted disk is already initialized. You also need to be familiar with the File Manager if your application changes the default volume characteristics of newly initialized volumes.

This chapter begins by describing the operation of the Disk Initialization Manager, including

Then this chapter shows how you can


Chapter Contents
About the Disk Initialization Manager
Disk Initialization
The Disk Initialization User Interface
Bad Block Sparing
Using the Disk Initialization Manager
Responding to Disk-Inserted Events
Erasing Initialized Disks
Overriding the Standard Initialization Interface
Changing Default Volume Characteristics
Disk Initialization Manager Reference
Routines
Loading and Unloading the Disk Initialization Manager
Initializing a Disk
Low-Level Disk Initialization Routines
Summary of the Disk Initialization Manager
Pascal Summary
Data Types
Routines
C Summary
Data Types
Routines
Assembly-Language Summary
Data Structures
Trap Macros
Global Variables
Result Codes

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