Lion does not allow disk sleep?

Background:
MacBook Pro 17" Early 2011 MC725LL/A
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1
Lion OS is installed to SSD located in OptiBay.
Synopsis:
Lion OS prevents my HDD drive located in primary HDD slot from sleeping: HDD spins up every few minutes. I do not manually perform any operations that should have called the secondary HDD to spin.
I did the following to prevent my HDD from spinning:
- sudo mdutil -a -i off - to disable Spotlight searching and indexing of my HDD
- manually added my HDD to Privacy Spotlight list
- sudo pmset -a disksleep 1 - to limit spinning time to 1 minute
- Disabled/Enabled Sudden Motion Sensor
However, every few minutes HDD spins up and I have no clue what causes that. No iStat Menus, MenuMeters or similar software installed.
I have this behavior after I upgraded my Snow Leopard to Lion via Mac App Store, made a brand new installation of OS 10.7.0 and 10.7.1 from a flash pen drive.
Similar configuration under Snow Leopard works as expected: the HDD idles until I manually call files located on it.

Have you tried unchecking everything under sharing? Some guy found that was his problem and he could then recheck it afterward without problem.
source:
http://macenstein.com/default/2011/08/how-to-get-your-macbook-pro-to-sleep-in-os -x-lion/

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