Its a hardware thing. http://www.debianhelp.org/node/11551 . Probably would be a pain in the ass to have it automatically do that for all devices. Would have to manually code for all the different devices.
Best off just finding a drive that spins down automatically (good hardware), I know the one I had did.
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