DuoDock HDD

#1 Tue, 9 Aug 2011 - 16:27

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?

#2 Tue, 9 Aug 2011 - 17:24

< Brute force approach warning >

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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!!!!!! }

#3 Tue, 9 Aug 2011 - 17:50

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.

#4 Tue, 9 Aug 2011 - 17:56

What fun would THAT be? }

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#5 Tue, 9 Aug 2011 - 20:37

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.

#6 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 - 22:54

How about using the "Sleeper" control panel? It can be set to spin down specified disks on the SCSI bus.