stop disk with script

[Glenn Clark]

Hi all

I have a number of sata hotswap cages used for backups. Now to remove the
drive I need to stop it first as the card does not support hotswap. Is there
a was I can use a script to stop drive drive so I can schedule it and a user
can just remove it when they come in

Cheers

Glenn

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi all

I have a number of sata hotswap cages used for backups. Now to remove the
drive I need to stop it first as the card does not support hotswap. Is
there a was I can use a script to stop drive drive so I can schedule it
and a user can just remove it when they come in

Cheers

Glenn

You could experiment with devcon.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/f/11f7dd10-272d-4cd2-896f-9ce67f3e0240/devcon.exe

Run this command to find out your device IDs:
devcon.exe hwids "*" > c:\id.txt

then look at c:\id.txt to find the ID for your SATA disk.
To disable the disk, run this command, using your own ID string:
devcon disable "PCI\VEN_10B9&DEV_5237&SUBSYS_05401014&REV_03"

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Hi all

I have a number of sata hotswap cages used for backups. Now to remove the
drive I need to stop it first as the card does not support hotswap. Is there
a was I can use a script to stop drive drive so I can schedule it and a user
can just remove it when they come in

You can try my RemoveDrive:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/removedrive.zip

It's a commandline version of the 'Safely Remove Hardware'
facility.


Uwe

 

[Uwe Sieber]

You could experiment with devcon.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/f/11f7dd10-272d-4cd2-896f-9ce67f3e0240/devcon.exe

Run this command to find out your device IDs:
devcon.exe hwids "*" > c:\id.txt

then look at c:\id.txt to find the ID for your SATA disk.
To disable the disk, run this command, using your own ID string:
devcon disable "PCI\VEN_10B9&DEV_5237&SUBSYS_05401014&REV_03"

If you do that way then don't forget to do a "devcon enable",
otherwise the drive will not work next time...


Uwe

 

[Glenn Clark]

Great tool Uwe many thanks