Making an External Lacie automatically turn on on startup???

Hi. Is it possible to make your lacie or any other external drives automatically turn on on startup. My lacie is really hard to get to because of a lack of space and this would really help if its possible.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Ben

Might not make sense just for the one item but you get power strips with smart sockets that detect how much power is being taken by a "master" socket. When this exceeds a certain value it switches on the other sockets.
I use this here to ensure monitors and speakers are only on when the mac is switched on. The UK energy Saving Trust has details of at least one supplier.
There's a danger when using these things with disks if the machine can sleep and kill the power to a disk that is mounted but with care it might be what you are looking for.

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Hi Rick
That's worked!
I did reboot Airport Extreme initially (had to switch off power to AEBS and Lacie disk as looks like there is no power switch on the AEBS?...and tried, but same problem. But then tried this again and all now works as before.
Thanks for your advice and the direct connection tip, which I was considering doing anyway if the conventional route didn't work.
Phew!

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The good thing about mac-centric resellers such as OWC, is they have people on staff that can answer questions without you buying things first. They also have how-to information, and instructions are included in many of their products. I saw a link to watch a DIY video in one of their pages; an example of a RAID (with its own power supply) is shown on their drives page. Also a few in there, with no power supplies, for less money.
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https://www.google.com/#q=raid+backup+mac
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My ideas would not be all that interesting to follow as a backup
plan when matching available newer hardware to task, but you
can get some into better ideas if you are not in a rush. Get a
good setup and then look into more an betterer stuff.
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