From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261240AbVGDKdp (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 06:33:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261394AbVGDKdp (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 06:33:45 -0400 Received: from ws6-4.us4.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.107]:9390 "HELO ws6-4.us4.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261240AbVGDKdY (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 06:33:24 -0400 Message-ID: <42C91073.80900@grimmer.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:33:23 +0200 From: Lenz Grimmer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Arjan van de Ven , Alejandro Bonilla , Jesper Juhl , Dave Hansen , hdaps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, LKML List Subject: Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer)) References: <9a8748490507031832546f383a@mail.gmail.com> <42C8D06C.2020608@grimmer.com> <20050704061713.GA1444@suse.de> <42C8C978.4030409@linuxwireless.org> <20050704063741.GC1444@suse.de> <1120461401.3174.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050704072231.GG1444@suse.de> <1120462037.3174.25.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050704073031.GI1444@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050704073031.GI1444@suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 OpenPGP: id=B27291F2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jens Axboe wrote: > It isn't too pretty to rely on such unreliable timing anyways. I'm > not too crazy about spinning the disk down either, it's useless wear > compared to just parking the head. Fully agreed, and that's the approach the IBM Windows driver seems to take - you just hear the disk park its head when the sensor kicks in (you can hear it) - the disk does not spin down when this happens. Could this be some reserved ATA command that only works with certain# drives? Bye, LenZ - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer -o) [ICQ: 160767607 | Jabber: LenZGr@jabber.org] /\\ http://www.lenzg.org/ V_V -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCyRBySVDhKrJykfIRAkM+AJ9UDbO8JU48UcEgVE2Kf35X1f4PjgCfaNPx xEHnSU5BagtmC02nwGx66F4= =BDfq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----