I can confirm this. I nearly went out of my mind trying to figure out why my unmounted ide disk kept waking up after hdparm -y (Bug #180986) until i finally found this. It appears to poll anywhere between 2 seconds and one minute.
-- running hddtemp as a daemon might cause unnecessary disk activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160621 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
