> what would be the best approach to implement aps on FreeBSD? > We have to poll the device for information quiet often to detect a possible shock early enough to park disk drive heads.
> Would an daemon be sufficient for that? Reaction time? What about an kernel thread? sorry for being that late on this, but just a thought: shouldn't this be an issue for the hdd-vendors to put this kind of protection algorithm directly into their hdd-controller-firmware? also, the accel.-detection could be on the hdd, not inside the nb. couldn't this save time and programming efforts for parking, flushing or even stopping the heads/plates? what about some kind of electronic "brake" that immed. stops the rotating plates in case of detection of such an event? cu... ps: just reply to the list, i'm on it! _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
