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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/5] libata: Implement disk shock protection support
    On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:05:03PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
    > Yes, from what I've seen on these laptops, it doesn't take much to
    > trigger the shock protection in Windows - lifting the front of the
    > laptop off the table an inch and dropping it will do it,

    A few years ago, I had a Thinkpad T21 laptop, accidentally slip
    through my butterfingers and dropped about an inch before it landed on
    the table. Unfortunately, (a) the Thinkpad T21 laptop was rather
    heavy (compared to modern laptops), (b) it didn't have the rubber
    "bubble" on the bottom of the laptop to cushion the landing as the T22
    and T23's had (and I'm sure I know why it was added), and (c) the hard
    drive was active at the time. It was enough to cause a head crash and
    Linux immediately started reporting an exponentially increasing number
    of write errors; the hard drive was totally unusable within an hour or
    so.

    So there's a reason why the anti-shock protection is set at a rather
    sensitive level...

    The real right answer though is to buy one of the laptop drives (such
    as the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 or 7200.3) which has the anti-shock
    detection built directly into the hard drive. That way you don't have
    to have a daemon that sits in the OS waking up the CPU some 20 to 30
    times a second and burning up your battery even when the laptop is
    idle.

    - Ted


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