Frankenpad wont stop spinning UltraBay HDD

[tipo33]

I have a Frankenpad, 15" T60 wit T61 mobo, Intel graphics etc... Linux Mint 14. Whenever I insert a hard drive with a UltraBay adapter, It constantly spins the drive. I can hear it and feel the vibration. It does not do this with two different ultrabay DVD drives I own, it acts like a normal drive. I only have one Ultrabay HDD adapter, and I have tried it with two different drives, and I get the same behaviour. I have checked all the power saving settings and all, and got nothing. I can still acess the drive, and do everything I need to. It just bugs me, and I don't think it's good for the drives. Thank you in advance.

[rumbero]

I have a Frankenpad, 15" T60 wit T61 mobo, Intel graphics etc... Linux Mint 14. Whenever I insert a hard drive with a UltraBay adapter, It constantly spins the drive.

Check out the -B option of the hdparm command. Here is the relevant entry of the man page (in Debian):

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       -B     Get/set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports
              it.  A  low  value  means aggressive power management and a high
              value means better performance.  Possible  settings  range  from
              values  1  through  127 (which permit spin-down), and values 128
              through 254 (which do not permit spin-down).  (cut off here)

Parameters for specific drives can be configured via the /etc/hdparm.conf configuration file.

[tipo33]

Fixed, thank you.