[ltp] HD does not spin down

[Matthias Redlich]

Am Sonntag, den 15.10.2006, 11:50 -0200 schrieb Henrique de Moraes
Holschuh:
> I have no idea about the rest, but hdparm -C is broken on all kernels using
> libata, unless you patch it.  A *tentative* patch was sent to LKML, which
> does fix things.  A revised patch will be probably added to 2.6.19.
> 
> If laptop_mode depends on hdparm -C, then it will break on all libata-using
> systems using current kernels.

I do not think that it has anything to do with the '-C' flag of hdparm
since it is only used to check the power mode status of IDE.
laptop-mode-tools invoke 'hdparm -S <timeout_value> /dev/sda' to set the
standby spindown timeout. And this settings has no effect on my system
anymore.