Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux

[Kevin Puetz]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>>that it stops the harddrive. How effective that is I don't know - I have
>>no further knowledge or experience with this.
> 
> stop is a good operation, but I doubt the heads won't scratch the cyls
> when the disk is falling from a desk's height.
 
It's not going to get the platter spun down, but it might survive if it
managed to get the head off the platter and into the cradle. If we figure
it's got a 20ms seek time (laptop drive, should be ~right) it should be
able to get the heads off to the side within about 4cm... clever :-)

> Jan Engelhardt


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