[ltp] Q: HD active protection sys for Linux???

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On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 11:23:49AM +0100, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 08:27:21PM +0100, Mikkel Haack Nielsen wrote:
> > This is the answer I received when I asked IBM tech support in Denmark.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > The APS system will require  APS software to be installed on the 
> > computer before it activates the harddrive parking . This means it will 
> > not work on systems preloaded with Linux.
> > 
> > Regards
> > IBM Technical Support
> > </snip>
> 
> That is a good answer.  I started disassembling the dll and driver for
> windows, and was too many code and glue around to figure out what was
> going on on the driver part to reverse enigneer it without investing a
> substantial amount of time.

I've done that too and I dissasembled the .sys files (drivers) with PE explorer
but even I haven't figured out how the accelerometers are programmed.

btw: to APS be usable it has to react in advance (when it has learned it
is the begin of going to be shock) or it hasn't time to park the disk
arm. I have read that from the white papers.

regards

	Ulisses
	

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