On Thu, Jul 07 2005, 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... > > They had to have had a method to park the drive there, or they probably > wouldn't have even included the HDAPS driver in the first place. > Anybody wanna strace the Windows app?
It's not unlikely that the drives that IBM shipped in that notebook used a "secret" command or subfeature to park the head. It's a little strange though, as they supposedly shipped various makes and models of drives with the hdaps included. If they did use a vendor unique command for parking the head, I bet it would be different for each make. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
