From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Paul Slootman <paul+nospam@wurtel.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:18:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1121282314.4435.73.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D56759.5090301@tmr.com>
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:11 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Paul Slootman wrote:
> > Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> 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?
>
IBM does, in their Windows driver.
This was all covered in the HDAPS threads of the past few weeks, check
the archives.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-13 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-07 13:13 Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up) Martin Knoblauch
2005-07-07 13:38 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-07-07 13:47 ` Martin Knoblauch
2005-07-07 14:45 ` Dan Christensen
2005-07-07 16:39 ` Martin Knoblauch
2005-07-07 16:54 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-07 17:14 ` Martin Knoblauch
2005-07-07 17:34 ` [Hdaps-devel] " Dave Hansen
2005-07-07 18:45 ` Martin Knoblauch
2005-07-07 18:51 ` Erik Mouw
2005-07-07 18:58 ` Martin Knoblauch
2005-07-07 18:59 ` Shawn Starr
2005-07-07 19:00 ` Martin Knoblauch
2005-07-07 19:10 ` Updating hard disk firmware (Was: Re: Head parking) Frank Sorenson
2005-07-13 8:58 ` Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk Gijs Hillenius
2005-07-13 10:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-13 10:21 ` [Hdaps-devel] " Lenz Grimmer
2005-07-13 11:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-13 13:11 ` Paul Slootman
2005-07-13 19:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-07-13 19:10 ` Paul Slootman
2005-07-13 19:18 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-07-13 23:32 ` [Hdaps-devel] " Shawn Starr
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