Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:14:02 +0200 | From | Eric Piel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] libata: Implement disk shock protection support |
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Theodore Tso schreef: > 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. Well, it's not always _that_ bad. For instance, the accelerometer in the HP laptops (lis3lv02dl) can monitor free-falls by itself. When the laptop starts falling, it generates one interrupt.
Eric
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