hdparm -B 255 /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
setting Advanced Power Management level to disabled
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error
The one thing you can do though is to set hdparm spindown time lower (it doesn't seem to work that well).
-S set standby (spindown) timeout
hdparm -S 251 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
setti........
Has Apple tried to give a golden egg to the cell phone companies? Has anyone noticed that if you set your lock time to x minutes, the phone doesn't just lock, it goes into standby. When it does this, any WiFi connection you have gets dropped and all push/data functions such as e-mail checking are done through the 3G network.
There is no way to change this feature and functionality and it's very annoying, especially if you are downloading something or loading files over the........