Re: IBM HDAPS Someone interested?

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Jun 21 2005 - 10:54:28 EST


On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:30 -0400, Adam Goode wrote:
> Freefall detection: 300 ms
> Head park time: 300-500 ms
> (from page 2 of document)
>
> Still doesn't seem too bad to figure out how to code though, at least
> once we can figure out how to get the data stream!
>
> P.S. The main control system runs as a Windows kernel driver. Not as
> safe as full hardware, but probably better than userspace. :)
>

Ugh, if userspace can't meet a 300ms RT constraint, that's a pretty
shitty OS you have there.

This should certainly be done in userspace on Linux.

Lee

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