[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#843836: /usr/bin/gnome-disks: HDD spin-down with standby timeout/APM disabled

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Package: gnome-disk-utility
Version: 3.22.0-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/gnome-disks


standby = never

APM level = 254 spin down not permitted

write cache = enabled

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a non-SSD HDD spins down when on battery power discharging after approx.
5 mins

why would this spin-down occur ?

i dont believe it occurs when on AC



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-disk-utility depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.22.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.24-5
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.6-1+b1
pn  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           <none>
pn  libcanberra0                                 <none>
ii  libdvdread4                                  5.0.3-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.36.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.50.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.22.2-1
ii  liblzma5                                     5.2.2-1.2
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.7-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.40.3-2
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.40.3-2
pn  libpwquality1                                <none>
pn  libsecret-1-0                                <none>
ii  libsystemd0                                  231-9
ii  libudisks2-0                                 2.1.7-3
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.3-1
ii  udisks2                                      2.1.7-3

gnome-disk-utility recommends no packages.

gnome-disk-utility suggests no packages.

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