[Bug 595138] Re: Settings in /etc/hdparm.conf are not applied during boot

[Eric_DL]

Reading again the first posts from this thread, seems I made a mistake
posting my comment here.

Maxim Tikhonov could get udev to trigger /lib/udev/hdparm manually, but
not during boot sequence.

My problem was actually that of bug #222458 : a bug in hdparm-functions
that prevented it to "recognize" hard drives described by a symlink
(e.g. /dev/disk/by-id/... ) instead of their device file (/dev/sd*) in
/etc/hdparm.conf.

Thanks Gerry for pointing me to the solution.
This bug has indeed been fixed in 13.04 (hdparm_9.43), but not back-ported to 12.10 so I modified hdparm-functions manually and it works :-)

BTW, I've just realized that :
    - bug #222458 is dating back from April 2008
    - the patch you sent the link to, is dating back from June 2011
    - it took 2 more years for the fix to be released with 13.04

That makes a total of 5 years for this bug to be fixed !!  :-/

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Title:
  Settings in /etc/hdparm.conf are not applied during boot

Status in “hdparm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: hdparm

  After upgrade to Lucid the hard drives never spindown. The hdparm
  spindown settings (and most likely others) in /etc/hdparm.conf are not
  being applied during boot.

  This seems to have happened after removing the init.d script.

  
  lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  Release:        10.04

  
  apt-cache policy hdparm
  hdparm:
    Installed: 9.15-1ubuntu9
    Candidate: 9.15-1ubuntu9
    Version table:
   *** 9.15-1ubuntu9 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  
  cat /etc/hdparm.conf
  /dev/sda {
      spindown_time = 240
  }
  /dev/sdb {
      spindown_time = 240
  }
  /dev/sdc {
      spindown_time = 240
  }
  /dev/sdd {
      spindown_time = 240
  }
  /dev/sde {
      spindown_time = 240
  }
  /dev/sdf {
      spindown_time = 240
  }
  /dev/sdg {
      spindown_time = 240
  }

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