Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux

[Jesper Juhl]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> >> >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?
> 
Knowing only what I could read here: 
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/thinkpad/xseries/index.html#aps it would seem 
that it stops the harddrive. How effective that is I don't know - I have 
no further knowledge or experience with this.

-- 
Jesper Juhl


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