How to stop hard disk from 2nd Ultrabay Adapter?

[ambientscape]

I just bought the 2nd Ultrabay 2000 hard disk adapter and would like to know the proper way to stop it without damaging my hard disk.

My way of stopping:

By clicking the 'safely remove hardware' icon on the right corner taskbar......and I can hear the hard disk power been suddenly cut off. So do you guys think this is appropriate?

Thanks

[a31pguy]

Use the IBM Easy Eject utility. My a31p doesn't support hot removal. It's supports warm removal. Meaning that I have to suspend when I eject and install another device.

[ambientscape]

Use the IBM Easy Eject utility. My a31p doesn't support hot removal. It's supports warm removal. Meaning that I have to suspend when I eject and install another device.

Thanks for your suggestion, a31pguy, but once i click stop.....the power will cut off suddenly from the 2nd hard disk. My question, will this hard the hard disk?

Thanks

[s0larian]

I see no reason why this should hurt your 2nd hdd. Seems pretty appropriate for me.

[a31pguy]

Correct - it's not a problem for the hard drive - but for write caching some data in the buffer may not get written to disk. this depends on how you have set up the hard drive in device manager. There are two options - optimize for performance and optimize for quick removal. If you have set it up for quick removal no problem. But if you optimize for performance you'll have to wait for the write buffer to "flush" before removal.