DuoDock HDD

[theos911]

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?

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

< 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!!!!!!

[theos911]

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.

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

What fun would THAT be?

[bbraun]

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.

[register]

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