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Subject: Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re:
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From: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
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On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:01 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:38 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 19:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > This _is_ the generic way, if your drive doesn't support it you are out
> > > of luck.
> > 
> > I do wonder what is done in Windows, though...
> 
> My guess would be that it silently upgrades the firmware if it detects
> that head parking isn't supported.

More likely that the things were shipped with firmware that only knows
some proprietary method of doing that we don't know about.

-- Dave