External HD shut down when turning off MBP. How?

Hi there
I have an external HD connected via Firewire to my MBP. How can I achieve the following? :
1. To have the external HD shut down automatically when I shut down the MBP. At the moment, if I shut down the MBP, the external HD stays on and I have to turn it off manually.
2. To have the external HD go into sleep mode (if possible) automatically when I put the MBP into sleep mode.
3. To have the external HD wake up from sleep mode or turn on whenever I do the same on the MBP.
Thanks for your help,
A.

Thank you both, Ned and hsaybasIII, I guess that's answered then. I was hoping to hear that there's some Utilities control, or Preferences pane that I wasn't aware of, and which enabled the feature I was talking about. Especially since I remember using it a long time ago on a much older Mac and an external HD, so I was assuming that these days that would be implemented too. Oh well... Thanks again.
A.

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