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

2005-07-07 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:45:38AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > If IBM would provide a CD image (bootable ISO) containing FW for all > supported drives - that would be great. No need for the "other OS" any > more. I can imagine IBM doesn't do that because in that way you can't update the firm

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

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:45:38AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > If IBM would provide a CD image (bootable ISO) containing FW for > all > > supported drives - that would be great. No need for the "other OS" > any > > more. > > I can imagine IBM doe

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

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have the feeling that this will work for many T4[012]p? users: > > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TPAD-HDFIRM > Actually, I think your feeling is wrong. Looking at the readme.txt it seems version 7.1 of the upgra

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

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Starr
You can take the .exe file and turn this into a bootable CD (using a RW CD) I forgot how I did it, but if I remember correctly, I took a floppy dos image and made that into the boot 'stub' and threw the exe into the CD (a la El-Torito). I flashed the disk firmware once since I got the laptop.

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

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:14 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > Basically I saw that the only difference between me and Pekka was > the > > FW (discounting the different CPU speed and Kernel version). I > googled > > around and found the IBM FW page at:

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

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:14 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > Basically I saw that the only difference between me and Pekka was the > FW (discounting the different CPU speed and Kernel version). I googled > around and found the IBM FW page at: > > http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/documen

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

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Starr
Model: HTS548080M9AT00 (Hitachi) Laptop: T42. segfault:/home/spstarr# ./a /dev/hda head parked Seems to park, heard it click :) Shawn. On July 7, 2005 04:48, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > Je

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

2005-07-07 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jens Axboe wrote: > Very cool, I wasn't sure if this was a 'new' feature waiting to be > implemented in drives or if ata7 just documented existing use in some > drives. > > How long did the park take? Spec states it can take up to 500ms. Hard