Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> 
> >Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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