[ltp] Active Protection System

[Yves Dorfsman]

Roman Haefeli wrote:

> i recently bought a t61 and now i heard that some thinkpads have
> harddisk protection called 'active protections system', which parks the
> harddisk head in order to protect disk from damage in case of fall. from
> what i heard, this is implemented using an accelerometer chip.
> 
> first, i would like to know, how i can find out, whether my box has APS.
> second i would like to know, if there is linux support to read data from
> them.

somebody posted this link a couple a days ago:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS#Tilt_monitoring

-- 
Yves.
http://www.sollers.ca/blog/2007/GA-M57SLI-S4_hangs_on_boot
http://www.sollers.ca/blog/2007/GA-M57SLI-S4_hangs_on_boot/.fr