I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to have EG spin up/down non-system hard drives. The drives are SATA drives in the same PC that is running EG and use an LSI SAS 9201-16i controller. I'm using Flexraid to pool the drives, so they appear as one drive to windows. The drives are used in an HTPC environment and only need to spin up when media is needed to play.
My goal is to have the drives spin down after a special EG event is received from my home automation server (e.g. something similar to a "theater off" command). Then, they would spin up later when requested by windows or by EG.
I've already wrote and implemented the EG module to work with my home automation server (Premise) and use it to display caller id info, turn off the monitors, etc...
I just need a tool that can spin drives up/down under Windows via Python or windows command line. Then I'd write an EG module to use that tool. A perl or vbscript method would work as I can use that with my home automation software pretty easily too.
Thanks in advance!
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Have event ghost spin up/down hard drives?
Have event ghost spin up/down hard drives?
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Download: http://www.mediapcforums.com/node/7
Open-source VRC0P (Z-Wave) driver:
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Re: Have event ghost spin up/down hard drives?
There are command line tools that can spin down a harddisk, e.g. http://hddscan.com/ (I never used it myself! So I don't know how good this tool is)
Another option might be to have EventGhost set the hdd spin down time (e.g. to one minute), but I'm not sure if that is possible.
Another option might be to have EventGhost set the hdd spin down time (e.g. to one minute), but I'm not sure if that is possible.