Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:27:21 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up |
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On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Bodo Eggert wrote: > > >Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Well, sure, it's not a notebook HDD, but maybe it's possible > >>to give headpark a more generic way to get the heads parked? > >> > >> > > > >I remember my old MFM HDD, which had a Landing Zone stored in the BIOS to > >which the park command would seek. Maybe you could do something similar > >and park the head on the last cylinder if the other options fail. > > > > > This makes me wonder... If you replace the internal HD with a non IBM or > IBM supported Hard Drive, will it still park the head and will it > support all the stuff?
Depends, the drive must support the IDLE_IMMEDIATE unload subfeature, as described in ata7.
-- Jens Axboe
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