I am booting a G4 desktop machine off an external FireWire drive containing
Panther. It has 2 internal disks which contain OS 9 file systems. I don't
want several of the accounts on the machine to have access to them, but
since they're OS 9, I can't seem to change ownership or set permissions
correctly. My interim solution is to simply have the OS dismount both drives
on startup. I'm the only one who knows they're there and would be able to
mount them from the disk utility if I needed them. The trick now is: how do
I get the system to automatically eject both internal drives on startup?
Could someone share with me an Applescript or some shell code which would do
this? My guess is that it's probably very simple (1 command)... If
Applescript, where do I put the resulting script to make it run on startup?
If shell code, which is the system-wide init file into which I would put it?
Any info on this would be greatly appreciated!

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Mike Levin
mlevin77@comcast.net