I recently got a new external USB drive with a hardware RAID controller. The drive is permanently connected to my computer, but I don't want the disks to spin all the time.
First of all, the drive spins down perfectly if I use
# hdparm -y /dev/sdb
And the disks stay off as long as I don't use any application that accesses the drive.
But unfortunately, I can't get this to work with the -S parameter.
# hdparm -S 60 /dev/sdb
What I tried so far:
Different values for hdparm -B (127, 128, 254, 255)
noatime in /etc/fstab
Unmounting the file system
I also found hd-idle which doesn't do anything at all.
# hd-idle -t sdb
Another USB drive of mine works fine with hdparm -S and hd-idle.
Is there any chance to spin down my new USB drive automatically?
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