I'm entirely sure about the diagnosis, since it seems the configuration is conditioned on APMD_DRIVES (does it get a default value when the script is being run?). What I know is that, since Ubuntu 15.04, my HDD has been showing this behaviour of spinning down quite quickly while it didn't before...
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