Please shutdown unused disks

[Fabio Marconi]

Hi
I have a multidisks pc, a raid 1 with the system I use and two other disks each one with his OS.
The problem is that if I use one system, the other disks still spining till I shutdown the machine, ®Windows® 8® instead® shut them down if unused (I'm sorry but is true).
Ok that disks needs to be running to be mounted, but once that this si done, if they are really unused as it happens mostly on my system it is greatly better to switch them off or find a way to frezee'em up, reactivating them when they are needed. I think that is better to wait few seconds more to reactivate a shutted down disk that to waste unusefully energy.
My best regards
Fabio

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: linux-image-3.13.0-11-generic 3.13.0-11.31
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-11.31-generic 3.13.3
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: njin 2617 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Feb 23 17:51:39 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=90cf744c-b44e-41e9-bacd-b22761eb3f14
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H55M-S2H
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-11-generic root=UUID=cc32d8a8-ff79-4de8-a08c-5900afa16b6c ro splash quiet nomdmonddf nomdmonisw vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.13.0-11-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.13.0-11-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.125
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/20/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F7
dmi.board.name: H55M-S2H
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF7:bd08/20/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnH55M-S2H:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnH55M-S2H:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: H55M-S2H
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

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