On Tuesday 23 August 2005 21:38, Erich Dollansky wrote: > The sensor will notice already the start of the move. The notebook will > then normally be accalerated with 1G as it simply goes into a free fall. > > If the heads are then moved away from the disks and the notebook hits > some ms later ground, it does not matter any more if this event takes > micro- or milliseconds as the heads are already out of the danger zone.
mmm.. There is a static 1G force on the laptop while it is on your desk. When it falls it goes to 0G as it is in free fall. Still.. "delta G == park laptop heads" :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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