Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:48:13 +0100 (CET) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux |
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> >The code apparently can display the horizon, but cannot prevent > >> >shocks :( > >> > >> How can something prevent a shock if it does not know before? What I mean is > >> that if I smack a harddrive, it can hardly evade it... nor can it prevent me > >> from smacking it. > > > >It can only prevent shocks when it detects tilts... like when the laptop > >shakes in a moving vehicle for example.. > > Ah that's reasonable, like I'm dropping it (will probably tilt due to physics) > and then hit the ground. > But what will it do to prevent against the schock, now that it knows it is > tilted? > Knowing only what I could read here: http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/thinkpad/xseries/index.html#aps it would seem that it stops the harddrive. How effective that is I don't know - I have no further knowledge or experience with this.
-- Jesper Juhl
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