Disk Utility Mount Volume

Trying to mount a particular volume (john) in disk utility using Applescript. Just got the script to open disk utility. What language is necessary to mount this particular volume?
thanks

This is a slightly messy situation, particularly as code seems to work differently with 10.4.6 and 10.4.11
Long story short: I've been using the do shell script command for this on 10.4.6 for some time, with an issue related only to diskutil unmount (not mount) -- see discussion of this below.
I only recently upgraded to 10.4.11 and SEEM to be seeing different behavior, but I don't have time to explore that right now.
In any case:
1) Niel is correct in that disk utility isn't scriptable beyond basic commands
2) Using the shell (or do shell script), I've been using the disk identifier, rather than the disk name. You can find the disk identifier by highlighting the disk of interest in disk utility and then selecting "Get Info". The disk identifier will be in the form (example) 1s3.
[3) BTW, you don't need a tell block for do shell script. Dispense with the "tell app "Finder"/end tell"]
4) Try this:
do shell script "diskutil (un)mount disk1S3" -- using, of course, the correct identifier, and it doesn't matter that the disk is an external one. And, of course, delete "(un)" if you are mounting the drive.
5) This will probably work for you, but I'm finding at the moment that identifying the drive by name rather than disk identifier is NOT working consistently in 10.4.11.
6) You will probably find that the "mount" command is fast but that the unmount command has a delay of some 20 seconds +/-. This happens also with 10.4.6, and there is no apparent workaround with "do shell script." HOWEVER, if you use terminal more directly, via AppleScript," that unmount delay disappears -- at least in 10.4.6. My quick tries in 10.4.11 seem to reveal a new issue (later).
To take the more direct approach, try code like this:
tell app "Terminal"
do script "diskutil unmount disk1s3 -- NOT do shell script
quit saving no
end tell
The downside of this is that a Terminal window opens (however briefly). In 10.4.6, the "quit saving no" line promptly got rid of the window after the drive had unmounted but, in 10.4.11, the Terminal app seems reluctant to quit. I need to investigate this more.
OKAY, now you're left with the problem of using the disk identifier, which changes on every re-boot of the computer. The scripts I wrote in the past actually get the disk identifier associated with each drive name -- but these are long scripts with some pretty messy code, and you probably don't want to get into that sort of thing. On the other hand, it seems to me that I've successfully used the /Volumes/(drive name) approach in 10.4.6, so this may be another instance of 10.4.11 acting differently.
If you want, try some of the suggestions above and post your findings -- I think I'll be looking at this more with respect to the apparent 10.4.11 issues.

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ForeignerMullet wrote:
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