From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: 7eggert@gmx.de
Cc: Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de>,
Lenz Grimmer <lenz@grimmer.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Alejandro Bonilla <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>,
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>, Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>,
hdaps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
LKML List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:26:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050708062630.GN24401@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DqhA2-000200-15@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Jul 08 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de> wrote:
>
> > Well, sure, it's not a notebook HDD, but maybe it's possible
> > to give headpark a more generic way to get the heads parked?
>
> I remember my old MFM HDD, which had a Landing Zone stored in the BIOS to
> which the park command would seek. Maybe you could do something similar
> and park the head on the last cylinder if the other options fail.
Yeah, in ancient times you would simply issue a SEEK to the landing zone
and the drive would park. Those days are long gone.
The SEEK is just a hint anyways, with the sophisticated caching that
drives do today I wouldn't rely on it doing anything reliable.
--
Jens Axboe
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2005-07-08 0:56 ` IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer)) Bodo Eggert
2005-07-08 0:46 ` IBM HDAPS things are looking up Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-08 6:27 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-08 6:26 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-07-08 8:49 ` IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer)) Vojtech Pavlik
2005-07-04 1:32 Jesper Juhl
2005-07-04 2:12 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-04 6:00 ` Lenz Grimmer
2005-07-04 6:17 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-04 5:30 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-04 6:37 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-04 7:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-04 7:22 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-04 7:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-04 7:30 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-04 10:33 ` Lenz Grimmer
2005-07-04 11:06 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-07 8:03 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-07 14:28 ` Shawn Starr
2005-07-07 14:37 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-07 15:06 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-07 20:43 ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-07-07 15:05 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-07 23:00 ` Jon Escombe
2005-07-07 23:31 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-08 6:31 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-08 18:32 ` Shawn Starr
2005-07-07 15:03 ` Shawn Starr
2005-07-07 17:02 ` Clemens Koller
2005-07-07 17:15 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-07 17:34 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-07 17:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2005-07-07 18:52 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-07 17:27 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-07 17:38 ` Dave Hansen
2005-07-07 18:01 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-07 18:03 ` Dave Hansen
2005-07-07 18:48 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-04 13:03 ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-04 21:08 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-05 7:14 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-05 12:29 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-05 15:41 ` Sander
2005-07-05 15:52 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-05 15:45 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-04 10:28 ` Lenz Grimmer
2005-07-04 14:27 ` Shawn Starr
2005-07-04 14:46 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-04 18:59 ` Aaron Cohen
2005-07-04 19:27 ` Lenz Grimmer
2005-07-04 8:45 ` Andrey Panin
2005-07-04 10:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-07-04 11:00 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-07-04 12:32 ` Pavel Machek
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