HDD Power down utility

  • Thread starter Thread starter Al Dykes
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Yeah but I wanto to force power down of a single disk @ once......
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Are you looking to hot swap ? If you are I'm not sure
the OS would be very happy when it powered up again.
 
Check with the hard drive manufacturer. Not all drives can use the same
utility.

Y.
 
Are you looking to hot swap ? If you are I'm not sure
the OS would be very happy when it powered up again.
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Well I have en external firewire enclosure with a 120gigs 7200 HD inside
(IBM). Apart from being aliminium made, the enclosure after a while gets
quite hot, that means inside the disk must be boily.

A haven't got a way to test the temp., cause monitoring utility access bios
info on the mobo, not on firewire interface. So I tried the powerdown power
management Xp built in utility but nothing. I am looking know for a utility
to stop the disk while online.......to coolit down. I'ts only a backup
unit..............
 
Whoooaaa!!!!! I've got it!!!!!!! When asking the tasbar applet to "safely
remove" the hardware and pres the stop button, it simply powers down the
HD!!!!!!!!

Ok
 
Well I have en external firewire enclosure with a 120gigs 7200 HD inside
(IBM). Apart from being aliminium made, the enclosure after a while gets
quite hot, that means inside the disk must be boily.

A haven't got a way to test the temp., cause monitoring utility access bios
info on the mobo, not on firewire interface. So I tried the powerdown power
management Xp built in utility but nothing. I am looking know for a utility
to stop the disk while online.......to coolit down. I'ts only a backup
unit..............
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You didn't say flrewire in your OP. Since FW and USB can be
hot-plugged the OS should handle disconnection. my comment was
directed to IDE disks. Look in Device Manager properties for the
device, you might find power options in the driver properties.
 
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