From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261619AbULBNW7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:22:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261620AbULBNWo (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:22:44 -0500 Received: from [129.6.101.41] ([129.6.101.41]:20405 "EHLO rogue.ncsl.nist.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261610AbULBNW0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:22:26 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [WISHLIST] IBM HD Shock detection in Linux References: <200412011331.06813.shawn.starr@rogers.com> <1101926579.18170.48.camel@krustophenia.net> <1101927427.4493.74.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> From: Ian Soboroff Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:21:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1101927427.4493.74.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> (Robert Love's message of "Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:57:07 -0500") Message-ID: <9cfy8ggesy5.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Love writes: > 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. This needs to be added to the input layer! Till Harbaum wired up an accelerometer inside his Palm Pilot, then wrote a marble rolling game that you could play by tilting the palm to move the marble. http://www.harbaum.org/till/palm/adxl202/index.html Ian