Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:10:25 +0100 | From | Sander <> | Subject | Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux |
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Niel Lambrechts wrote (ao): > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 23:06 +0100, 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..
Of course it can't prevent shocks :-)
It can try to minimalize the impact of a shock though.
I am a happy owner of a X40. Just got it, so it still runs XP. The software parks the heads of the disk if it detects movement. It is very sensitive and quick so I believe it can protect the harddisk if the notebook gets dropped during use.
In a car the software adapts to the usual bumps so the notebook is still useful :-)
The windows software shows a picture of the notebook in 3D which tilts if you tilt the actual notebook. Neat :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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