Comment 8 for bug 738757

I have an at least similar issue on 12.10 quantal:
 I want to spin down my external USB drive /dev/sdc as fast as possible:
in /etc/hdparm.conf:

/dev/sdc {
 spindown_time = 1
}

that works, although I get

$ sudo hdparm -C /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: f0 00 01 00 50 40 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 1d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 drive state is: unknown

but after resume from suspend, it doesn't work anymore.

my workaround is
/etc/pm/sleep.d/20-hdparm

#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
 thaw|resume)
  hdparm -S 1 /dev/sdc
  ;;

esac

and that works, anyway, spindown settings shouldn't get lost on suspend/resume in the first place.

So what is most reasonable?
 * Reopen this bug?
 * Deal with that issue in the similar and open bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hdparm/+bug/199094 ?
 * Open a new bug?