Disabling the "This disk is unreadable" alert

We use a custom Mac app and Mac minis in our factories to initialize disks and copy files to them. It would make this process easier, if the person in manufacturing did not have to dismiss the dialog which says "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" for each disk.

Is there a Finder or system preference I can set to prevent this dialog from being displayed?

I know that I can grab the disk using DADiskPeek but one of our tools is a Python script so calling DADiskPeek is not an option.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Tim
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Hi, did you get any further with this, I need to do something similar ?
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No, not yet...
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I need to do something similar ?

Do you have the same constraints as Tim? Because, from an API perspective DiskArb is the right answer here, and if your building a normal app then there’s nothing stopping you from using it.

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