Re: is there any Hard-disk shock-protection for 2.6.18 and above?

Shem Multinymous
2006-11-23T18:26:26Z

On 11/21/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> I'm afraid we need your help with development here. Porting old patch
> to 2.6.19-rc6 should be easy

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/9/84
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/10/275

> Does hdaps work for you, btw? It gave all zeros on my x60, iirc.

Yes, vanilla hdaps is broken. It blindly issues commands to the
embedded controller without following the protocol or checking the
status. The patched version in the tp_smapi package fixes it.

Shem