Public bug reported:
I have this Toshiba Satellite A665, which comes with a 3D accelerometer.
The purpose of this accelerometers is to measure the relative magnitude
(and direction) of the acceleration of gravity. In the event the device
enter in a free fall, the magnitude of the acceleration changes and this
is used to park the HD heads and protect the integrity of the data. I
have support for HDD protection in Win7, but it's not included in
Ubuntu, and there seems to be not a single driver out there. HDAPS
doesn't support my PC, only Macbooks and IBM computers, and it's very
dangerous for me to use my system without protection, my HDD already
died once because of disabling HDD protection.
It would be great if we could have accelerometer support in Ubuntu.
Maybe it would be possible to reverse engineer the driver from Windows,
by decompiling it and porting the code to linux kernel? A framework for
all accelerometers would be great.
Thanks.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: accelerometer hdd protection toshiba
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Title:
No accelerometer HDD protection on a Toshiba Satellite A665
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