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[Rocko <rockorequin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just FYI, udisks2 handles drives (at least in 14.04+) and you can
configure things like APM level for individual disks by putting an entry
into /etc/udisks2 with a filename that matches the drive id and serial
number (which you can read from gnome-disks/palimpsest), eg with the
contents:

[ATA]
StandbyTimeout=60

Do "man 8 udisks" for more info about the format of the file.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058623

Title:
  APM settings are not persistent after a reboot

Status in gnome-disk-utility package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In order to keep my data storage disks from slowly committing suicide
  by unloading their heads, I have to disable APM for both of them.
  Usually I would be able to do so by putting 'hdparm -B255 -S0
  /dev/sdx*' in /etc/rc.local.

  Since Ubuntu 12.10, Palimpsest has a built-in function to modify APM
  settings if required. Sadly, after a reboot, these settings aren't
  kept. Even though the Palimpsest interface still claims APM is set to
  255, running sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdx* will show the default value of
  128 again. The desired behaviour is hdparm showing 'APM = off', and,
  more importantly, the disks not breaking themselves.

  The only way to keep my disks from dying is by adding

  /dev/sdx* {
  	apm = 255
  	spindown_time = 0
  }

  to /etc/hdparm.conf, as everything in /etc/rc.local seems to be
  ignored as well. The problem is no different for my SSD, but it
  doesn't make a difference for that one, obviously. Disabling and re-
  enabling the APM settings from Palimpsest does seem to work though,
  but it's impossible to do/remember that after every bootup. And
  forgetting to do so would most likely lead to premature disk failure.

  * 'sdx' is 'sdb' and 'sdc' in my case

  
  ProblemType: Bug
  ApportVersion: 2.5.3-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Sep 29 15:28:24 2012
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.24-generic 3.5.4
  SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
  Tags:  quantal
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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