Ubuntu
hdparm package

  1. Bug #875719
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 875719

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Wojciech Musial (wojciech-musial) wrote :

You may want to consider hd-idle as a workaround. It checks for read/write activity and spins the drive down a la hdparm -Y after a specified timeout.

http://hd-idle.sourceforge.net/