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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:51:49 +0000 (UTC)
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Lee Revell <rlrevell <at> joe-job.com> writes:

> 
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:31 -0500, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > While I have seen this feature in XP, It would be nice to have such 
> > functionality in Linux. Does anyone know if this is being worked on 
> > somewhere?
> 
> What is it?  What does it do?  How does it work?  Got a link?

It's a motion detector on the motherboard.

Here is an IBM whitepaper:
  ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/aps2mst.pdf

Kay