I spoke a little too soon too. It seems that I can spin down my disk by doing sudo sg_start 0 /dev/sdb but only if the drive is mounted. This is already mentioned in bug #117713 by JoeZ251 in comment #45 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/117713/comments/45).
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