On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:05:03PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Yes, from what I've seen on these laptops, it doesn't take much to > trigger the shock protection in Windows - lifting the front of the > laptop off the table an inch and dropping it will do it, A few years ago, I had a Thinkpad T21 laptop, accidentally slip through my butterfingers and dropped about an inch before it landed on the table. Unfortunately, (a) the Thinkpad T21 laptop was rather heavy (compared to modern laptops), (b) it didn't have the rubber "bubble" on the bottom of the laptop to cushion the landing as the T22 and T23's had (and I'm sure I know why it was added), and (c) the hard drive was active at the time. It was enough to cause a head crash and Linux immediately started reporting an exponentially increasing number of write errors; the hard drive was totally unusable within an hour or so. So there's a reason why the anti-shock protection is set at a rather sensitive level... The real right answer though is to buy one of the laptop drives (such as the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 or 7200.3) which has the anti-shock detection built directly into the hard drive. That way you don't have to have a daemon that sits in the OS waking up the CPU some 20 to 30 times a second and burning up your battery even when the laptop is idle. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
