On Tue 2008-08-05 17:14:02, Eric Piel wrote: > Theodore Tso schreef: >> 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. > Well, it's not always _that_ bad. For instance, the accelerometer in the HP > laptops (lis3lv02dl) can monitor free-falls by itself. When the laptop > starts falling, it generates one interrupt. I was told that "when it starts falling" is too late. Thinkpads at least tried to detect the movement before fall: before notebook falls off table, it is very likely to tilt a lot. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
