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  1. Bug #466575
  2. Comment #66

Comment 66 for bug 466575

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Mihai Capotă (mihaic) wrote :

Answering my own question, hdparm will make the hard disk spin down, even though it reports an error:

$ sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 issuing sleep command
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(sleep) failed: Invalid argument