noflushd not working on 8.04

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Hi!

This is a problem that is maybe generic enough to be posted on the 
ubuntuforums.com, but I wanted to try here first, since I'm a Kubuntu user.

I have a 32 bit Kubuntu 8.04 system, which was installed as 6.10 almost 2 years 
ago and then upgraded to 7.04, 7.10 and finally to 8.04. The upgrades where not 
always smooth, but I managed to make it work everytime. 

I have a spare disk in my system intended for backups, which is mounted only at 
the time of backup, otherwise it sits unmounted and spun down. This was at 
least until I upgraded to 8.04. Hardy heron brought laptop-mode-tools and my 
faithfull companion noflushd was removed. As I understood, laptop-mode-tools is 
not started by default at boot time, nonetheless I observed that inactive disks 
were spun down. There is no mention of this activity in any system log.

To regain control over which disks are spun down and the time a disk has to sit 
idle before it goes to sleep, I uninstalled laptop-mode-tools and installed 
noflushd again (apt-get install noflushd), but it erriors out:

Setting up noflushd (2.7.5-6) ...
Stopping No Flush Daemon: noflushd.
Starting No Flush Daemon: Error: Don't know how to spindown /dev/sdc
Error: Don't know how to spindown /dev/sdb
Error: Don't know how to spindown /dev/sda
noflushd.

All the disks in this machine are IDE (ATA) discs, no scsi or sata disk here. 
They are represented as sdX, but this is a new "feature" in Hardy.

Is there a way to persuade Hardy not to treat all discs as scsi disks? I want 
my noflushd back... How do you control which disc goes to sleep and the idle 
time?

bye

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