Public bug reported: There are laptops from Hewlett-Packard laptops that HP 3D Driveguard (AKA "HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D" and "ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection"), an active hard-drive protection technology utilising an accelerometers as a free-fall sensor.
In order to use this technology there needs to be a piece of simple software that does the parking of the disc depending on the sensor input. An example code for such a software for HP laptops is included in the kernel docs: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c This software is what I would like to see packages and included in the official repository just like the one for Thinkpads ("hdapsd"). (P.S.: someone created a PPA for previous Ubuntu versions: http://blog.pcode.nl/2009/09/19/hp-3d-driveguard-on-ubuntu-karmic/ , it still might work but the point here is to make the make it just as easy to enable the hard-drive protection for laptops from HP as from IBM) ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: accelerometer drive-protection driveguard hewlett-packard laptop needs-packaging precise protectsmart quantal ** Tags added: precise quantal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032967 Title: hpfall missing from the official repository To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1032967/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
