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    SubjectRe: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))
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    On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:01 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
    > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:38 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
    > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 19:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
    > > > This _is_ the generic way, if your drive doesn't support it you are out
    > > > of luck.
    > >
    > > I do wonder what is done in Windows, though...
    >
    > My guess would be that it silently upgrades the firmware if it detects
    > that head parking isn't supported.

    More likely that the things were shipped with firmware that only knows
    some proprietary method of doing that we don't know about.

    -- Dave

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