[ltp] Active Protection System

[Derek Dolney]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 21:37 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> hi all
> 
> 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.

Have a look at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS .

> 
> thanks
> roman
> 
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