No, nothing advanced. I was talking about exactly that possibilities form the Control Panel. My idea was that, as it is an iBook, perhaps the values are set to "immediatly", and thus your HD is always powering down. What is happening when you shut all energy saving off? Does it still spin down immediatly?
And sadly I do not know any tools for IDE or SATA HDs that care about idle times, spindown, SMART status and more. There are a few tools that can manipulate SCSI drives in this direction, but not for IDE as far as I know.
In general; are such tools at other plattforms not from the vendors directly (just for Win in most cases)? Or are there free, or at least external tools to access all the HDs possibilities?