Alternative to disk utility for activating firewire disk?

Question

I have two Firewire harddisks, one for TimeMachine and one for my SuperDuper Backups. Because they make noise and slow down Open/Save dialogues, I like to keep them deactivated most of the time.
So far, I've been using disk utility (is that the English name? - I'm on a German system) for activating them. Is there a faster, more elegant solution than opening the disk utility app and activating the drive?
I've searched high and low but only found some AppleScripts that didn't work reliably.
I would appreciate your help.

Answer 1

andreas-kalt wrote:
I tried the solution offered in the thread that you linked to (in fact, I had tried that solution a couple of times before).
Now I have a script like the following:
do shell script "diskutil mount /dev/disk2s2"
However, this does NOT work reliably. Sometimes the disk does become activated, sometimes it doesn't.
this is probably because the device number for the disk may change and the above command is trying to mount the wrong disk.
try this one
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title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
set diskname to "name of your disk"
set devnumber to do shell script "diskutil list |grep " & diskname & " |awk '{print $6}'"
do shell script "diskutil mount " & devnumber</pre>
put the name of your disk in the above