[ltp] HDAPS support for non-Hitachi drives?

[Paul RIVIER]

Hello Andrew,

> Hello.
>
> I have a Thinkpad T42 which has been running Windows since I got it
> over a year ago. I've always wanted to put Linux on it but I'm growing
> tired of installing Linux on some new PC and then having to deal with
> the hardware breakage.

I own a t42 as well, bought new a year ago, that did never boot windows 
in its life. All the hardware worked out of the box with a modern distro.
What are those hardware breakage you are talking about ?
I do not use hdaps because I heard from the mouth of an IBM engineer 
that repeated head-parking leads to HDD unreliability, neither I use the 
3D because I do not need it and ati 3D support was really bad in the past.

By the way, getting the whole thing working, 3D and hdaps included, with 
say, ubuntu or suse, would take 3 hours. No longer than a winXP setup I 
would say.


Paul