[Bug 1073137] Re: time-controlled spindown with hdparm

[John Littleton]

I can confirm the same behavior for Ubuntu 12.10 AMD64 on an ASUS
P8B75-V. My boot drive, sda, is an ssd.

The four mechanical drives run through a single pci/IDE interface.

	sda: OCZ-VERTEX4 (1.5) (ssd, not an issue)
	sdb: Seagate ST380011A
	sdc: Maxtor 6L020L1
	sdd: Maxtor 6E020L0
	sde: Hitachi HDS724040KLAT80

All mechanical drives spindown 60 seconds after signon, as configured in the 'Disks' gui (ver 3.6.1).
All mechanical drives reliably respond to 'sudo hdparm -S 12 /dev/sdb' (as do sdc,sdd,and sde).
All mechanical drives remain asleep until user or program access.

When NOT configured to spindown in 'Disks', all mechanical drives do not
recognize/respond to commands in /etc/hdparm.conf:

	/dev/sdb {spindown_time=12}
	/dev/sdc {spindown_time=12}
	/dev/sdd {spindown_time=12}
	/dev/sde {spindown_time=12}

Also, after a suspend/resume powerdown, all mechanical drives no longer
spindown again unless commanded to in terminal or the 'Disks' gui.

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Title:
  time-controlled spindown with hdparm

Status in “hdparm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using a fresh Xubuntu 12.10 AMD64 on Lenovo Thinkpad with HDD in Ultrabay. The Ultrabay drive should spindown with hdparm. But in cas of using "hdparm -S" it doesn't work. Only the manual way with "hdparm -y" works. 
  In Xubuntu 12.04 works correctly and some users can confirm that it works with Ubuntu 12.10.

  look here:
  http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/kein-standby-der-festplatte-mit-hdparm-oder-tl/

  thanks!

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