From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262715AbVGMTUF (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:20:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262703AbVGMTT6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:19:58 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:53445 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262715AbVGMTSg (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:18:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk From: Lee Revell To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Paul Slootman , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <42D56759.5090301@tmr.com> References: <20050707171434.90546.qmail@web32604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <42D4EB21.1060305@grimmer.com> <42D56759.5090301@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:18:34 -0400 Message-Id: <1121282314.4435.73.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:11 -0400, 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? > IBM does, in their Windows driver. This was all covered in the HDAPS threads of the past few weeks, check the archives. Lee