Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:38 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 19:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Clemens Koller wrote:
> > > Well, sure, it's not a notebook HDD, but maybe it's possible
> > > to give headpark a more generic way to get the heads parked?
> > 
> > This _is_ the generic way, if your drive doesn't support it you are out
> > of luck.
> 
> I do wonder what is done in Windows, though...
> 

My guess would be that it silently upgrades the firmware if it detects
that head parking isn't supported.

Lee

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