QUESTION:
I'm putting a motorized removable hard disk in my tower. The docking station part of this is an internal ide connected device - installs just like a zip or CD: power cable and ide cable, that's all.
The insertion/ejection mechanism of the internally mounted docking station ( is motorized and worked very well with win95/98 where the "It's now safe to turn
off your computer" would come up allowing the perfect moment to eject the hard disk.
In today's systems (w2k, xp, 98) HOW can I get the "It's now safe..." message to come up so that I can safely eject the MobileDrive (the cartridge with the hard drive) from the drive station? Or some other way to delay the auto shut down process??
Things looked at/thought about...
(1) PowerdownAfterShutdown is already "0".
(2) Standby mode doesn't save data to disk and am not sure is
safe.
(3) Cannot find place in BIOS to turn off APM (Auto Power Management)
Does anyone know how to shutdown w2k, xp, 98 in such a way as to
get the "It's now safe to..." message to come up --- OR --- have other ideas?
I suppose we could restart, pause the POST and then eject, but I'm hoping there's an easier way.
Here's one solution that was proposed BUT the warning messages this generates scares me.
ARE THERE OTHERS?????
I *believe* I know the correct answer, but hopefully someone can confirm. You need to change the computer type in the Device manager.
Expand the "Computer" category, and you should see either APM or ACPI PC listed.
Select properties and update the driver to Standard PC. This should disable the auto power off, and leave you with the "ready to shutdown" message. However, I would backup the machine before I play with this.
I'm putting a motorized removable hard disk in my tower. The docking station part of this is an internal ide connected device - installs just like a zip or CD: power cable and ide cable, that's all.
The insertion/ejection mechanism of the internally mounted docking station ( is motorized and worked very well with win95/98 where the "It's now safe to turn
off your computer" would come up allowing the perfect moment to eject the hard disk.
In today's systems (w2k, xp, 98) HOW can I get the "It's now safe..." message to come up so that I can safely eject the MobileDrive (the cartridge with the hard drive) from the drive station? Or some other way to delay the auto shut down process??
Things looked at/thought about...
(1) PowerdownAfterShutdown is already "0".
(2) Standby mode doesn't save data to disk and am not sure is
safe.
(3) Cannot find place in BIOS to turn off APM (Auto Power Management)
Does anyone know how to shutdown w2k, xp, 98 in such a way as to
get the "It's now safe to..." message to come up --- OR --- have other ideas?
I suppose we could restart, pause the POST and then eject, but I'm hoping there's an easier way.
Here's one solution that was proposed BUT the warning messages this generates scares me.
ARE THERE OTHERS?????
I *believe* I know the correct answer, but hopefully someone can confirm. You need to change the computer type in the Device manager.
Expand the "Computer" category, and you should see either APM or ACPI PC listed.
Select properties and update the driver to Standard PC. This should disable the auto power off, and leave you with the "ready to shutdown" message. However, I would backup the machine before I play with this.
