Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:33:23 +0200 | From | Lenz Grimmer <> | Subject | Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer)) |
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Hi,
Jens Axboe wrote:
> It isn't too pretty to rely on such unreliable timing anyways. I'm > not too crazy about spinning the disk down either, it's useless wear > compared to just parking the head.
Fully agreed, and that's the approach the IBM Windows driver seems to take - you just hear the disk park its head when the sensor kicks in (you can hear it) - the disk does not spin down when this happens.
Could this be some reserved ATA command that only works with certain# drives?
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