udisks' / gnome-disk-utility's support for the drive standby timer is broken. If the standby timer is set to at least 10 minutes ( which is the minimum on many drives ), every 10 minutes udisks tries to update the smart status of the drive, which resets the standby timer.
As David Zuthern noted in a private message, my initial patches to fix this also prevent ever updating smart data on disks that are never used, even if they do not have a standby timer enabled. I will fix them to be contingent on a standby timer and post updated patches here soon.
udisks' / gnome-disk- utility' s support for the drive standby timer is broken. If the standby timer is set to at least 10 minutes ( which is the minimum on many drives ), every 10 minutes udisks tries to update the smart status of the drive, which resets the standby timer.
Reported in Ubuntu: https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 1281588
As David Zuthern noted in a private message, my initial patches to fix this also prevent ever updating smart data on disks that are never used, even if they do not have a standby timer enabled. I will fix them to be contingent on a standby timer and post updated patches here soon.