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Mar 20, 2008
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Hi guys,

quick question. I bought an optibay clone and put it in my 2010 Macbook i5. I have an SSD residing in my standard hard drive bay (because of potential hibernate issues) and the 5400rpm Apple drive + optibay clone in the Superdrive bay.

How do I sleep/spin down the 5400rpm drive ? Unmounting doesn't seem to help. Put disk to sleep option in preferences is selected, but it keeps spinning and spinning. What options do we have for sleeping/spinning down this drive within OSX ?

Kind regards :)
 
I am unable to get the script to work my drive is called "data"

I pasted this from applescript

"touch /Volumes/data/.dummy;
hdiutil eject `disktool -l | grep data |
awk '{ print substr($0,20,7) }'`"

the " " are included in the script.
 
Hi guys,

quick question. I bought an optibay clone and put it in my 2010 Macbook i5. I have an SSD residing in my standard hard drive bay (because of potential hibernate issues) and the 5400rpm Apple drive + optibay clone in the Superdrive bay.

How do I sleep/spin down the 5400rpm drive ? Unmounting doesn't seem to help. Put disk to sleep option in preferences is selected, but it keeps spinning and spinning. What options do we have for sleeping/spinning down this drive within OSX ?

Kind regards :)

Sorry for reviving such an old thread but I thought I'd post for anybody on google trying to fix this problem (like me) https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=12536522#post12536522
 
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