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

[Thomas Graham]

which series of machine got APS support ?!


On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:47:36 -0800, Osho GG <oshogg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 26 November 2004 3:19 pm, Volker Braun wrote:
> >
> > Personally, I do not think that the APS is all that useful. How do you
> > drop the computer while sitting in front of it? And if I drop the machine
> > and the screen cracks, the hdd might just as well break, too. You have
> > backups, don't you? Plus the extra mechanical stress from frequent
> > emergency parks.
> >
> 
> APS is not only useful when thinkpad is dropped. It is very useful when it is
> being carried around while laptop is not suspended - which is it's primary
> use.
> 
> Where I am at, there are literally hundreds of thinkpads (of many different
> models, sizes, specs). If you ask support guys what is the #1 hardware
> problem they get - they would say hard drive gone bad in thinkpads. The
> reason is that everyone moves so often during day from one meeting to another
> and not everyone bothers to even suspend to RAM. I have seen people walking
> around with their laptop open holding it by the top edge of the LCD screen
> dangling it like it was a little child cradle. I heard from our support guys
> that IBM invented this APS only because they had too many bad hard drive
> returned which were under warranty.
> 
> Personally, I had A21p for 3-4 years and it's harddrive crashed 3 times. The
> support guys had to get new harddrive from IBM twice. The hard drive was
> under warranty both times. And I was very careful about not moving without
> suspending. However, when one moves so much, things like this are bound to
> happen.
> 
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> Osho
> 
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