From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262226AbVGMTKq (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:10:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262508AbVGMTI0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:08:26 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:54024 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262542AbVGMTIA (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:08:00 -0400 Message-ID: <42D56759.5090301@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:11:21 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Slootman , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk References: <20050707171434.90546.qmail@web32604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <42D4EB21.1060305@grimmer.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Slootman wrote: > Jan Engelhardt 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? -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me