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

Jens Axboe
2005-07-05T07:14:45Z

On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> >
> >Actually, "spin disk down and keep it down" would be nice for other
> >reasons. Taking computer for a jog playing mp3s from ramdisk is
> >something I'd like to do...
> > Pavel
> >
> >
> This is exactly what I wanted to do. hdparm suspend which would send
> things to cache or buffer and then copy or get files only when needed. I
> just hope is fast enough, but we could trigger this with tilting or
> vibration and then something heavier when we find a free fall.
>
> This driver does not exactly has to behave like Windows. It can be
> better. We always make things better.

As Lenz already suggested, you both pretty much seem to be describing
laptop mode. See the documentation.

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Jens Axboe