[ltp] Active Protection System

[Roman Haefeli]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 15:53 -0400, Derek Dolney wrote:
> 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 .

many thanks. it's working for me... i can think of so many fun things to
do with the accelerometer data.. ;-)

roman


	
		
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