From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261358AbULNAmO (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:42:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261359AbULNAmO (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:42:14 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:16780 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261358AbULNAmG (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:42:06 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Kevin Puetz Subject: Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:41:53 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1102888882.15558.2.camel@ksyrium.local> <1102889485.15558.5.camel@ksyrium.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12-219-2-179.client.mchsi.com User-Agent: KNode/0.8.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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