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Posted by: theos911 on 2011-08-09 08:27:52
I just got my DuoDock up and running as a file server for my Plus, and everything I need is on a RAM disk. Is there any way to spin down the DuoDock's HDD? The little spin down button in the control strip only appears to do the Duo's HDD.
Any ideas?
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2011-08-09 09:24:24
< Brute force approach warning > 😱)
Once your RAM Disk is up, can you do a hot reboot from it?
if so:
. . . do so . . .
. . . try dragging the HDD Icon to the Trash to dismount it . . .
. . . if that works . . .
. . . then hack the sucker with a switch to turn off its power!!!!!! }🙂
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Posted by: theos911 on 2011-08-09 09:50:48
I hadn't thought of that. With 24 MB of RAM I should have more than enough space for a minimal install and whatever I want to put on it. Though, I'm wondering if there is a software solution. Something as simple as it listing the disks and having a few options such as mount/unmount, spin up/down, etc.
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2011-08-09 09:56:46
What fun would THAT be? }🙂 😉 😱)
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Posted by: bbraun on 2011-08-09 12:37:31
I don't have a solution, but here's a funny story for you instead.
This seemed like a simple problem, so I thought I'd be all smrt and code something up real quick to just send the SCSI Stop command to stop the drive's motor. And sure enough it was a super easy thing to do.
It just turned out to not be so smrt, as my development machine now has an invalid partition map. 🙂
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Posted by: register on 2011-08-12 14:54:20
How about using the "Sleeper" control panel? It can be set to spin down specified disks on the SCSI bus.
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