On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:11 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Paul Slootman wrote: > > Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>What's the gain in parking the head manually if it's done anyway when the > >>disk > >>spins down (for whatever reason)? > > > > > > It seems you're completely missing the whole point of this discussion, > > which was how to implement the hard disk active protection system that > > IBM offers under windows for its laptops, that will park the disk when > > it detects that e.g. the laptop is falling off a table. > > Does that imply that we have software to detect falling off a table? >
IBM does, in their Windows driver. This was all covered in the HDAPS threads of the past few weeks, check the archives. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
