Comment 4 for bug 227705

imho i have the same problem in karmic now. it worked for me in jaunty (not sure why, and cant remember how it was in intrepid).

im trying to set the spindown timeout for my second disk with:

/dev/sdb {
 spindown_time = 240
}

but obviously it does not work.

all my / (but /boot) is encrypted, maybe this is related too?
will install the debian init script for now, if i can find it.