Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:11:21 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk |
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Paul Slootman wrote: > Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > >>What's the gain in parking the head manually if it's done anyway when the disk >>spins down (for whatever reason)? > > > It seems you're completely missing the whole point of this discussion, > which was how to implement the hard disk active protection system that > IBM offers under windows for its laptops, that will park the disk when > it detects that e.g. the laptop is falling off a table.
Does that imply that we have software to detect falling off a table?
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