Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Nils Holland <nhg@×××××.org> wrote:
> Of course, manually executing "hdparm -B 254 -S 0 /dev/sda" after
> unplugging the machine fixes the issue again. However, something more
> "automated" would be prefered.

I had the same problem. My solution was to edit /etc/conf.d/local and
add the command into the local_start() function (before the return):

local_start() {
        # This is a good place to load any misc programs
        # on startup (use &>/dev/null to hide output)

        hdparm -B 254 /dev/sd[abcdef]

        # We should always return 0
        return 0
}


and it automatically "fixes" my drives when I reboot.