From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261411AbULATA0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:00:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261412AbULATA0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:00:26 -0500 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:46820 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261411AbULATAW (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:00:22 -0500 Subject: Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux From: Robert Love To: Lee Revell Cc: Shawn Starr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1101926579.18170.48.camel@krustophenia.net> References: <200412011331.06813.shawn.starr@rogers.com> <1101926579.18170.48.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:57:07 -0500 Message-Id: <1101927427.4493.74.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:42 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > What is it? What does it do? How does it work? Got a link? Modern ThinkPads have accelerometers in their hard drives that detect sudden movement and spin down the drive or otherwise protect it. The device is pretty basic, though, and you can just read it directly to watch the movement of your laptop. E.g., pick your laptop up and a little icon in your GNOME panel can show an up arrow. Pretty neat. I am sure Google has more information. Robert Love