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

[Paul Slootman]

On Wed 13 Jul 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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?

Progress is indeed being made, according to what I've been reading on
l-k.


Paul Slootman
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