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From: Paul Slootman <paul+nospam@wurtel.net>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: 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 21:10:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050713191013.GA16799@wurtel.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D56759.5090301@tmr.com>

On Wed 13 Jul 2005, 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?

Progress is indeed being made, according to what I've been reading on
l-k.


Paul Slootman

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-13 19:33 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 [this message]
2005-07-13 19:18                       ` Lee Revell
2005-07-13 23:32             ` [Hdaps-devel] " Shawn Starr

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