Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

[Bill Davidsen]

Paul Slootman wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt  <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > What's the gain in parking the head manually if it's done anyway when the disk 
> > spins down (for whatever reason)?
>
>
> It seems you're completely missing the whole point of this discussion,
> which was how to implement the hard disk active protection system that
> IBM offers under windows for its laptops, that will park the disk when
> it detects that e.g. the laptop is falling off a table.

Does that imply that we have software to detect falling off a table?

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