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Stopping a hard disk as removable drive under Win98SE
I have a secondary hard disk on my system which I mounted in a removable tray/caddy.
Currently I can choose whether to power it on or not before booting.
I would like to be able to stop it and power it down and restart it without restarting windows. (Rather like my win2k laptop can stop and start devices) (Ideally even changing to another tray with a different hard disk).
I checked the 'Removable' box on the drive (Ctrl-Panel/System/Hard-di
(The primary and secondary HDDs are on seperate channels of a Promise Ultra100 controller so they look like SCSI disks.)
Currently I can choose whether to power it on or not before booting.
I would like to be able to stop it and power it down and restart it without restarting windows. (Rather like my win2k laptop can stop and start devices) (Ideally even changing to another tray with a different hard disk).
I checked the 'Removable' box on the drive (Ctrl-Panel/System/Hard-di
(The primary and secondary HDDs are on seperate channels of a Promise Ultra100 controller so they look like SCSI disks.)
This may not be possible using standard IDE drives. the 2.5" laptop drives have a better chance of being able to do this. It is a matter of OS support and hardware support on the drive itself.
I would also check the manufacturers site for the drive. Some models may have this available, but I think that 3.5" drives will probably not allow actually shutting off the drive power - just going into power down mode.
1) I would check to see if the OS has support for this.
2) I would check the drive specs.
3) I would look into an external USB 2 drive. All you will need is the case since you have the drive already.
I hope this helps !
I would also check the manufacturers site for the drive. Some models may have this available, but I think that 3.5" drives will probably not allow actually shutting off the drive power - just going into power down mode.
1) I would check to see if the OS has support for this.
2) I would check the drive specs.
3) I would look into an external USB 2 drive. All you will need is the case since you have the drive already.
I hope this helps !
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Thanks Steven,
I think this is the answer in short. It's a pity because I'd like to shut the drive off when playing DVDs to lessen the noise, but I can reboot if I have to to do that.
It isn't worthwhile to me to go and buy more hardware and I couldn't tolerate a hard disk at USB1.1 speeds.
Oliver
I think this is the answer in short. It's a pity because I'd like to shut the drive off when playing DVDs to lessen the noise, but I can reboot if I have to to do that.
It isn't worthwhile to me to go and buy more hardware and I couldn't tolerate a hard disk at USB1.1 speeds.
Oliver
Oliver, wish I had better news for you
Steve
Steve
What you need is an adapter to connect the drive to a USB or Firewire port. These allow hot plugging.
Have a look here: http://www.addonics.com/product/md-1.htm