Insert/remove USB device

I am using WinUAE, so I can't test this myself.

How do I have my program "listen" for USB devices being inserted/removed? ie, thumb drives, external harddrives.

If you have a complete working C example, that would be great since I can't test it myself.

I don't know how to make it specific for USB, but generally you would just listen for IDCMP_DISKINSERTED and IDCMP_DISKREMOVED messages. Or, if you want to get the information when your window is inactive, too, you would create an input handler or commodity which watches for IECLASS_DISKINSERTED resp. IECLASS_DISKREMOVED events.

Regarding WinUAE I am quite sure that you have removable harddisk support, at least when using UAE controller.

@mritter0
There is already a USB utility like that at OS4Depot called "UsbSound". However, it notifies the user with a sound for any USB device insertion/removal, not just media devices. It does not provide notification for other types of nonUSB removable disk media like CDROM or Floppy drive. I've never tested it with WinUAE but it uses datatype sound play and notification from the OS4 USB system, so it might work.

I totally overlooked what this option is for:

WinUAE->CD & Hard drives->Automount removable drives

It mounts my thumbdrive as RDH0: and I get IDCMP_DISKINSERTED. Exactly what I wanted.