How do I get the computer to automatically eject a drive before it enters Sleep?"

I have an external eSATA drive connected via PCI Express card to my Mac Pro. When I wake the computer, I get a complaint about not correctly ejecting the disk. How can I get the computer to eject the drive before entering Sleep? There are two partitions on the drive, so the answer will need to include "Eject All." Perhaps an Apple Script could tell the drive to eject, but how to automatically run it? If I could schedule it to run five or ten minutes before the scheduled Sleep, that should work.
The reason for the external drive is to back up my TiVo recordings...WARNING...If you have a DVR Expander connected to your TiVo and EITHER fails, you lose everything! I now transfer all my recordings from my TiVos to this drive so I won't lose recordings in the future. Plus I can take the drive with me and connect it via a Thunderbolt wire and watch them on my laptop.

Hello,
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120211184732735
http://irwinkwan.com/2013/06/27/eject-all-mac-os-x-disks-with-a-script/

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