[Bug 286846] Re: harddrive spins down when man page says setting does not permit it

[Jost Menke]

The manpage is still inconsistent in Ubuntu 12.04 beta.

- APM is considered "off" for both -B 255 and -B 254

- When -S is set, the hard drive will spin down, no matter what APM
level is specified

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Title:
  harddrive spins down when man page says setting does not permit it

Status in “hdparm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: laptop-mode-tools

  I'm beta testing Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex with kernel version
  2.6.27-7.

  In laptop-mode.conf, the hdparm -B value is set to 128 therefore
  [according to man page] the harddrive should apply power regulation
  without spinning down the harddrive

  hdparm -I /etc/sda1 indicates that hdparm -B is indeed set to 128 (and
  not 0 through 127, which would elicit spindown). It will still spin
  down because of -S. The man page should be clearer about this.

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