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I'm not looking for tools to set the accoustic management for my drive. Accoustig management doesn't spin down the drive[/edit]
I'm the proud owner of an Asus WL-500g and a LaCie 200Gb external USB drive.
After some fiddling i got everything working the way i want it to (including samba, custom FTP, etc). There's only one thing left i can't get to work right: power saving for the external USB hdd.
I've tried the hitatchi feature tool (to no avail), as well as hdparm. Both with the drive connected throught USB and with the drive connected to the IDE controller on my motherboard (LaCie uses a WD 200Gb drive for this device).
I have emailed LaCie about this, and their answer is simple: "to power down the drive, flip the power button". DUH.
Now i'm thinking about the following. The WL-500g has a parralel port, and it's relatively easy to switch stuff on and of using this port. The hard- and software i need for this is no problem; I can get to the point where i can switch on/off the harddrive with a single command on my own. I could also alter the webinterface of the router to make it possible to switch the HD on and/or off using the webinterface.
However, that is not what i want to do. I want it to do that by itself, without me intervening. So that would mean that if the HDD is powered down, and i try to access it, that the WL500g powers it up by itself. I guess this would mean some changes to the samba running on the WL500g, as well as the stupid-ftpd. That, or change the USB mass-storage driver to include this (the latter might be more logical).
Before diving into this, i'd like some thoughts about the attainability of this goal. Also i'd like to check for one last time if there really doesn't already exist a way of doing this.
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