From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262646AbVGMTdl (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:33:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262607AbVGMTKm (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:10:42 -0400 Received: from mx.wurtel.net ([195.64.88.114]:50958 "EHLO mx.wurtel.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262576AbVGMTKd (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:10:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:10:13 +0200 From: Paul Slootman To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk Message-ID: <20050713191013.GA16799@wurtel.net> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Davidsen , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20050707171434.90546.qmail@web32604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <42D4EB21.1060305@grimmer.com> <42D56759.5090301@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42D56759.5090301@tmr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Scanner: exiscan *1DsmcY-0006ay-00*s7UvoT5FhYA*Wurtel Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed 13 Jul 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Paul Slootman wrote: > >Jan Engelhardt 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? Progress is indeed being made, according to what I've been reading on l-k. Paul Slootman