Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 16:38:52 EST


Hi!

> > Please make it "echo 1 > frozen", then userspace can do "echo 0 > frozen"
> > after five seconds.
>
> What if the code to do "echo 0 > frozen" is swapped out to disk? ;)

Emergency head parker needs to be pagelocked for other reasons. You do
not want to page it from disk while your notebook is in free fall.

Pavel
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