Perhaps this will lead you in the right direction, Bruce recently posted:

 I run /dev on a ram disk, and disable cron when undocked. That seems to be
 enough to get the disk to spin down, regardless of the time period of
 update. I think the system spent a lot of time updating the dates of tty
 files in /dev.

Michael Keith wrote:

> I have debian loaded on a jazz disk and everything seems to work fine
> except that it will not let the jazz go to sleep,and iomega says that it is
> imperative that the jazz goes to sleep. Does anybody have a clue on how to
> make this happen? It seems that debian is always hitting on it about every
> two seconds....

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