Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Lenz Grimmer
here is no gain, except that just parking the head without spinning down the spindle can be performed much faster. Bye, LenZ - -- - ---------- Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -o) [IC

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Lenz Grimmer
Or for a given timeout, whatever happens first. Sounds good to me! So would this feature require modifications to the IDE layer? Bye, LenZ - -- - -- Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Lenz Grimmer
sition for some time - otherwise it may already be on its way back to the platter before the laptop hits the ground... Thanks again - this is another helpful bit in getting all the pieces together. Bye, LenZ - -- - -------

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
top-mode" and available already? I remember that Jens wrote something like that :) Bye, LenZ - -- - ------ Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -o) [ICQ: 160767607 | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTEC

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

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
lting your Laptop sounds like fun :) Bye, LenZ - -- - ------ Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -o) [ICQ: 160767607 | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/\\ http://www.lenzg.org/

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
perror("ioctl"); > > close(fd); > return 0; > } I will give it another try, after clarifying the above questions - maybe there is a command that will perform the desired task. If not, I guess we're back at snooping what the Windows driver does here... Bye,

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

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
n# drives? Bye, LenZ - -- - ---------- Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -o) [ICQ: 160767607 | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/\\ http://www.lenzg.org/ V_V -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

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

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
ues and take appropriate action (e.g. parking the hdd head). This allows other apps to make use of these acceleratometer values as well (think SDL for games). Bye, LenZ - -- - ------ Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>