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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using script
I have used many tools:
deveject devcon removedrive sync all seem to work with USB drives but will not work properly with Mass storage devices of the hard drive kind (SATA) that isn't USB. I know the Eject Devices GUI, but i want to run this through script. Is there any way of achieving this, or has MS made windows inccappable of doing so? (seems kinda silly to me) Thanks you for all responses |
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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using script
Perhaps it depends on the controler your sata drive is connected to.
I know if I connect a sata drive to one of my other sata controlers its then detected as a removable device, with the resulting icon/stop device available. (My mobo has a Sil and Nvidea sata controller, it was the Nvidea controller that then showed as removable) "Jake1980" wrote in message ... I have used many tools: deveject devcon removedrive sync all seem to work with USB drives but will not work properly with Mass storage devices of the hard drive kind (SATA) that isn't USB. I know the Eject Devices GUI, but i want to run this through script. Is there any way of achieving this, or has MS made windows inccappable of doing so? (seems kinda silly to me) Thanks you for all responses |
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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using script
Jake1980 wrote:
I have used many tools: deveject devcon removedrive sync all seem to work with USB drives but will not work properly with Mass storage devices of the hard drive kind (SATA) that isn't USB. I know the Eject Devices GUI, but i want to run this through script. Does it mean that you can reattach it when it's removed thru the 'save removal' GUI? Have you tried a 'devcon rescan' after reattaching the SATA drive? Greetings from Germany Uwe |
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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using scr
To answer DL: I think all SATA drives are considered removable to the OS.
That is the design spec of SATA. Uwe Sieber: I have not used devcon rescan, i beleive what it does after i attach it is that it shows up in the Manager but is unusable. The computer needs a restart in order to use that volume. It doesn't get a drive letter. It shoulds up in the GUI but i cannot use it. All the tools i mentioned work with USB fine, it's with these removable mass storage devices with SATA that all these utilities seem to "remove" it and not "UNPLUG" it. Only the Safely Remove Hardware GUI has the Eject feature that is required. I need EJECT. Not REMOVE. Devcon has a import/enable, but then what i'm doing is blocking the drive and making it unusable; then reversing it. I still need to restart afterwards to make the volume show up. Thanks for all the responses. Maybe this feature will be corrected in Vista? The point would be to Truly do Hot Swap of Hard drives without a Raid array, use JBODs and swap them like USB flash disks. "Uwe Sieber" wrote: Jake1980 wrote: I have used many tools: deveject devcon removedrive sync all seem to work with USB drives but will not work properly with Mass storage devices of the hard drive kind (SATA) that isn't USB. I know the Eject Devices GUI, but i want to run this through script. Does it mean that you can reattach it when it's removed thru the 'save removal' GUI? Have you tried a 'devcon rescan' after reattaching the SATA drive? Greetings from Germany Uwe |
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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using scr
They maybe considered removable but are only shown as such on certain
controllers. "Jake1980" wrote in message ... To answer DL: I think all SATA drives are considered removable to the OS. That is the design spec of SATA. Uwe Sieber: I have not used devcon rescan, i beleive what it does after i attach it is that it shows up in the Manager but is unusable. The computer needs a restart in order to use that volume. It doesn't get a drive letter. It shoulds up in the GUI but i cannot use it. All the tools i mentioned work with USB fine, it's with these removable mass storage devices with SATA that all these utilities seem to "remove" it and not "UNPLUG" it. Only the Safely Remove Hardware GUI has the Eject feature that is required. I need EJECT. Not REMOVE. Devcon has a import/enable, but then what i'm doing is blocking the drive and making it unusable; then reversing it. I still need to restart afterwards to make the volume show up. Thanks for all the responses. Maybe this feature will be corrected in Vista? The point would be to Truly do Hot Swap of Hard drives without a Raid array, use JBODs and swap them like USB flash disks. "Uwe Sieber" wrote: Jake1980 wrote: I have used many tools: deveject devcon removedrive sync all seem to work with USB drives but will not work properly with Mass storage devices of the hard drive kind (SATA) that isn't USB. I know the Eject Devices GUI, but i want to run this through script. Does it mean that you can reattach it when it's removed thru the 'save removal' GUI? Have you tried a 'devcon rescan' after reattaching the SATA drive? Greetings from Germany Uwe |
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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using scr
Jake1980 wrote:
Only the Safely Remove Hardware GUI has the Eject feature that is required. I need EJECT. Not REMOVE. Don't pay to much attention to these terms... I think I've found the problem. RemoveDrive removes the volume only but not the drive itself. When you execute RemoveDrive it shows the device name that it ejects. But this is output is true only for USB drives that are removable. But you can grab the name and run RemoveDrive again with this device name as parameter, e.g. Removing Drive T:\ (FUJITSU MHK2120AT SATA Device) success then call RemoveDrive "FUJITSU MHK2120AT SATA Device" The problem here is, that there is no warrenty that there is no second device with exactely the same name. Then it's pure chance which one is logged of. So far I've not found the missing link between volumes on SATA drives and their drive. But I'm searching... Greeting from Germany Uwe |
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Uwe Sieber wrote: Jake1980 wrote: But you can grab the name and run RemoveDrive again with this device name as parameter, e.g. Removing Drive T:\ (FUJITSU MHK2120AT SATA Device) success then call RemoveDrive "FUJITSU MHK2120AT SATA Device" Correction: RemoveDrive constructs the device name by putting together vendor name, device name and the bus type name. The latter one I had guessed and now it seems to be ok for USB only ('USB device'). There seems to be no bus type text for ATA or SATA drives, so please try RemoveDrive "FUJITSU MHK2120AT" even it shows Removing Drive T:\ (FUJITSU MHK2120AT ATA device) before. Can someone tell me if SCSI and 1394 devices appear with a trailing 'SCSI device'/'1394 device' or not in the 'save removal' dialog? Thanks. Greetings from Germany Uwe |
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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using scr
Uwe:
thanks for your involvement in this. using deveject, i have this data shown for my two hard drives: 'Maxtor 6 B300S0 SCSI Disk Device' 'SCSI\DISK&VEN_MAXTOR_6&PROD_B300S0&REV_ABCN\ 5&38DB3D1E&0&000' [REMOVEABLE] 'Maxtor 6 B300S0 SCSI Disk Device' 'SCSI\DISK&VEN_MAXTOR_6&PROD_B300S0&REV_ABCN\ 5&38DB3D1E&0&040' [REMOVEABLE] First one is F: and the second one is G: I would like to use the cmd line script to eject each one like every other 2 days. testing with your program Removedrive..... removedrive f: [Removes just the volume but not the drive. Restart is needed to gain access again] removedrive "Maxtor 6 B300S0 SCSI Disk Device" [Pickes out the first one (F and actually shows it being ejected!!!! BUT since both disks are named that way, i can't choose which one i want.] this is getting closer, since both drives won't need to be in at the same time ever, this script could be effiecent once tweaked and a process is done to switch out the drives. Though it's not perfect, it's near close that though. Hopefully you can figure out if you can mix drive letter and name. or maybe i can change the "name" to something else so that this program and distinguish between the two. Hope this helps! Jake "Uwe Sieber" wrote: Uwe Sieber wrote: Jake1980 wrote: But you can grab the name and run RemoveDrive again with this device name as parameter, e.g. Removing Drive T:\ (FUJITSU MHK2120AT SATA Device) success then call RemoveDrive "FUJITSU MHK2120AT SATA Device" Correction: RemoveDrive constructs the device name by putting together vendor name, device name and the bus type name. The latter one I had guessed and now it seems to be ok for USB only ('USB device'). There seems to be no bus type text for ATA or SATA drives, so please try RemoveDrive "FUJITSU MHK2120AT" even it shows Removing Drive T:\ (FUJITSU MHK2120AT ATA device) before. Can someone tell me if SCSI and 1394 devices appear with a trailing 'SCSI device'/'1394 device' or not in the 'save removal' dialog? Thanks. Greetings from Germany Uwe |
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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using scr
Jake1980 wrote: testing with your program Removedrive..... removedrive f: [Removes just the volume but not the drive. Restart is needed to gain access again] removedrive "Maxtor 6 B300S0 SCSI Disk Device" [Pickes out the first one (F and actually shows it being ejected!!!! BUT since both disks are named that way, i can't choose which one i want.] Great, you have two identical named disks. You are the perfect tester :-) I think I've figured out how to match between volumes and their disks... Here is RemoveDrive 0.9: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/removedrive09.zip Please let me know if it works. Greetings from Germany Uwe |
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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using scr
Uwe:
Glad to help! as for the link, it keeps giving me version 7, the url tries for 9 but swtiches to 07 to download. I will wait till later this afternoon, about 3 hours from this post and try again to download it. Thanks! PS: I assume you want me to test just the drive removal by drive letter since using the device name alwasy picks the first one, or drive F: ? Note: these are two seperate disks, not two partitions on same hard drive. "Uwe Sieber" wrote: Jake1980 wrote: testing with your program Removedrive..... removedrive f: [Removes just the volume but not the drive. Restart is needed to gain access again] removedrive "Maxtor 6 B300S0 SCSI Disk Device" [Pickes out the first one (F and actually shows it being ejected!!!! BUT since both disks are named that way, i can't choose which one i want.] Great, you have two identical named disks. You are the perfect tester :-) I think I've figured out how to match between volumes and their disks... Here is RemoveDrive 0.9: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/removedrive09.zip Please let me know if it works. Greetings from Germany Uwe |
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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using scr
as for the link, it keeps giving me version 7, the url tries for 9 but
swtiches to 07 to download. I had uploaded it some minutes before my posting. Seems you have cache proxy in between. Here is a copy that the proxy cannot know... http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/removedrive09.zip Uwe |
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"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using scr
Uwe:
I had ran the tool and it had successfully removed the drive [removedrive G:], not just the partition, and changed the status on my SATA enclosure to red, which means disconnected, as if i did the GUI Safely Remove Hardware. But... I took out the drive, and slide the drive back in. the drive initialized and the device was added to the Device Manager. The volume was there in Disk Management, but it was not reading the partition right. It was showing it with NO drive letter, and showing 100% free, which it really is about 70% full, thus show 30% free if it was reading right. There isn't a drive G: obviously so a restart is neccessary. After a restart, everything is ok. I think it's getting really close, but am unsure if there can be more to be done. This may work for us with a restart command at set intervals to makes sure the other drive is there and working for that night, and just do a hop skip and jump in the morning to switch drives. OR there is that deveject command that could refresh the partitions so that at a set interval the script would run, we would eject one drive and slide the other drive in, then the deveject command script would run after. We'd probably have to set it to set times... 9am remove drive, 9-10am swap HDs, 10am deveject refresh partition. of course this still is a bit of work but it's far closer to what we wanted than of when we started! Thanks Uwe for your work, if you want to test anything else, let me know! Hopefully they do something different with Vista. Jake "Uwe Sieber" wrote: as for the link, it keeps giving me version 7, the url tries for 9 but swtiches to 07 to download. I had uploaded it some minutes before my posting. Seems you have cache proxy in between. Here is a copy that the proxy cannot know... http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/removedrive09.zip Uwe |
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