WDC WD5001AALS-00L3B2 does not spindown automaticaly

Hello All!

Please help me with my WDC WD5001AALS-00L3B2 hard disk. It does not spindown after idle timeout =(

** THIS IS NOT SYSTEM DISK, MY SYSTEM ON SSD DRIVE ***

C:\Windows\system32>hdparm -S1 hdc

hdc:
setting standby to 1 (5 seconds)

It does not work…

C:\Windows\system32>hdparm -S121 hdc

hdc:
setting standby to 121 (10 minutes + 5 seconds)

It not work too… Hard disk never spindown automaticaly…

But if i am run this:

C:\Windows\system32>hdparm -Y hdc or C:\Windows\system32>hdparm -y hdc

hard disk change state to standby/sleep…

Please Help me to set idle timeout to one minute.

For you Information:

C:\Windows\system32>hdparm -I hdc

hdc:

ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD5001AALS-00L3B2
Serial Number: WD-[Deleted]
Firmware Revision: 01.03B01
Transport: Serial, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5
Standards:
Supported: 8 7 6 5
Likely used: 8
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63

CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
LBA48 user addressable sectors: 976771055
device size with M = 1024*1024: 476938 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 500106 MBytes (500 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Queue depth: 32
Standby timer values: spec’d by Standard, with device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 128
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns

Have you tried using the wdspinup utility?

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=616&sid=114&lang=en