Harddrive-specific spindown timings in Mac OS X

Hi,
Mac OS X 10.6 offers pretty limited access to spindown times of harddrives.
In System-Preferences we can just enable or disable the checkbox to put drives on sleep if possible - which affects all drives if i am right.
I am wondering if its possible to define drive-specific spindown times at all?
I disvoered SpinDownHD.app already as part of the developer tools installation - but while it gives more options it is still not drive-specific - right?
any help is appreciated.
Best Regards
fidel

Correct. The CLI command pmset is what's used and that setting is global for all mounted volumes/disks. See the manpage for pmset for the details.

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