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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HP accelerometer driver: testers wanted
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:59:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901230959.25491.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901230011.31871.elendil@planet.nl>

On Friday 23 January 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> The LED lights up yellow, but I have problems telling if the disk gets
> parked or not. One time I got a green led and seemingly a fair amount
> of activity immediately after getting the yellow led.
>
> After looking at hpfall.c, I checked /sys/block/sda/device/unload_heads
> after a drop:
> $ cat /sys/block/sda/device/unload_heads
> 19616
> $ cat /sys/block/sda/device/unload_heads
> 0
>
> The last was at most 2 seconds after the first, certainly not 20...

I've just looked at hpcall.c a bit closer and I guess that's because of 
the alarm(2) call? I must admit having some problems reading that code.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-23  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-22 21:31 HP accelerometer driver: testers wanted Pavel Machek
2009-01-22 22:01 ` Frans Pop
2009-01-22 22:17   ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-22 23:11     ` Frans Pop
2009-01-23  8:59       ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-01-23  9:13         ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-23 15:22       ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-22 23:16 ` Mariusz Kozlowski

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