Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> >The code apparently can display the horizon, but cannot prevent
>> >shocks :(
>> 
>> How can something prevent a shock if it does not know before? What I mean is 
>> that if I smack a harddrive, it can hardly evade it... nor can it prevent me 
>> from smacking it.
>
>It can only prevent shocks when it detects tilts... like when the laptop
>shakes in a moving vehicle for example..

Ah that's reasonable, like I'm dropping it (will probably tilt due to physics) 
and then hit the ground.
But what will it do to prevent against the schock, now that it knows it is 
tilted?



Jan Engelhardt
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