From: Kevin Puetz <puetzk@puetzk.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:41:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cplcsi$2rj$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.61.0412122340320.31793@yvahk01.tjqt.qr
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>that it stops the harddrive. How effective that is I don't know - I have
>>no further knowledge or experience with this.
>
> stop is a good operation, but I doubt the heads won't scratch the cyls
> when the disk is falling from a desk's height.
It's not going to get the platter spun down, but it might survive if it
managed to get the head off the platter and into the cradle. If we figure
it's got a 20ms seek time (laptop drive, should be ~right) it should be
able to get the heads off to the side within about 4cm... clever :-)
> Jan Engelhardt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-14 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-12 22:01 [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux Niel Lambrechts
2004-12-12 22:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-12 22:11 ` Niel Lambrechts
2004-12-12 22:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-12 22:48 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-12 22:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-14 0:41 ` Kevin Puetz [this message]
2004-12-14 3:22 ` [OT] IBM Active Protection System (Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux) YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-12-13 8:05 ` [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux Manu Abraham
2004-12-13 9:10 ` Sander
2004-12-12 22:59 ` Bernd Eckenfels
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-10 8:39 Shawn Starr
2004-12-10 19:59 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-10 20:03 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-10 20:17 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-10 21:08 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-01 18:31 Shawn Starr
2004-12-01 18:42 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-01 18:57 ` Robert Love
2004-12-02 13:21 ` Ian Soboroff
2004-12-01 20:51 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-01 20:13 ` Joseph Pingenot
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