Disabling Spotlight on Secondary Drive in Leopard For Free

How to do this without buying third-party software? Is it possible? I've searched these forums and only found that you need to buy a $13 software.
I need to disable Spotlight on my scratch disk.

Go into System Preferences -> Spotlight and click on the Privacy tab. Add the second disk in there, and Spotlight won't index it.

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