Ask HN: Can someone tell me how to reverse engineer this?

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9 years ago

There is a neat little tool out there called HDDScan. It has the ability to SpinUp and SpinDown Hard-Disk-Drives, which does exactly what it sounds like. I badly want to know how it is able to do that. I already wrote Artem Rubtsov, but received no answer.

Since you can invoke this functionality via a command line parameter, i thought, it should not be that hard to just monitor its behavior with some Api monitoring tools. But no success. Even after some hours into IDAPro, i still have no idea...

But it somehow must go through the Win32 API, right?

No one seems to know, how to accomplish this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5367065/spin-down-hard-disk-programmatically-on-windows

Can someone help me, please?

Best regards

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