Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-04T07:36:33Z

>
> Yeah, that likely needs a little help from the ide driver. If you force
> a spindown, you will effectively have parked the head for as long as the
> spindown + spinup takes. That could turn out to be enough, it will take
> more than 1-2 seconds anyways.

I doubt it; laptop disks seem to be optimized for spinning up/down fast
(for powersaving reasons) so while for normal disks I'd agree with you,
for laptop disks I'm far less sure.