From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262152AbULLWOk (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:14:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262155AbULLWOj (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:14:39 -0500 Received: from ctb-mesg4.saix.net ([196.25.240.76]:23721 "EHLO ctb-mesg4.saix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262152AbULLWKf (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:10:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux From: Niel Lambrechts To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Linux Kernel ML In-Reply-To: References: <1102888882.15558.2.camel@ksyrium.local> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:11:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1102889485.15558.5.camel@ksyrium.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 23:06 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >I picked this up from somewhere on the net, pity that it is not c > >code... > > - there is "c" in "c#". > - the code looks really ugly (is this always the case with something that's > written under windows?); make a silent rewrite if license allows :) > > >The code apparently can display the horizon, but cannot prevent > >shocks :( > > How can something prevent a shock if it does not know before? What I mean is > that if I smack a harddrive, it can hardly evade it... nor can it prevent me > from smacking it. It can only prevent shocks when it detects tilts... like when the laptop shakes in a moving vehicle for example.. Niel