HDD Power down utility

[Al Dykes]

Looking for a utility to power down on hard disk manually.

Have you tried setting inactivity timers in
ControlPanel/PowerManagement ?

 

[Atlas]

Looking for a utility to power down on hard disk manually.

 

[Atlas]

Have you tried setting inactivity timers in

ControlPanel/PowerManagement ?

Yeah but I wanto to force power down of a single disk @ once......

 

[Al Dykes]

Yeah but I wanto to force power down of a single disk @ once......

Are you looking to hot swap ? If you are I'm not sure
the OS would be very happy when it powered up again.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Check with the hard drive manufacturer. Not all drives can use the same
utility.

Y.

 

[Atlas]

Are you looking to hot swap ? If you are I'm not sure

the OS would be very happy when it powered up again.

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..............

 

[Atlas]

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

 

[Al Dykes]

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..............

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.