I confirm John Reid's patch to udisks2 allows my WDC WD40EZRX-00SPEB0 to spindown into standby after 10 minutes (Ubuntu 14.04, udisks- udisks2-2.1.3. The patch actually failed so I applied it manually).
But exactly at the 30 minute mark it spins back up into idle mode, even though gnome-disks says that the last check was 30 minutes ago. So it appears that polling _is_ in this case waking up the drive and I need to do more than just assign a sane polling interval to udisks. Any idea why this would be? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to udisks2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1281588 Title: Disk standby timer is broken Status in “udisks2” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: gnome-disk-utility's support for the drive standby timer is broken. Instead of issuing the STANDBY command to the drive, it issues the IDLE command. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+bug/1281588/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

