On Thursday 28 August 2008 12:06:32 pm Brian K. White wrote:
It's there to ward against the day you drop your laptop, or I suppose the day you use it to bash over the head of a mugger. By the time it hits the floor (by the time it moves even 1cm toward the floor, or the muggers head) the head should be parked and because of that, most likely even if the laptop is destroyed the drive will still work in some other laptop or in a usb drive enclosure so you don't lose any data. (unless the mugger wasn't fazed and ran off with your laptop.)
I don't know if there is a linux answer for the feature (perhaps an acpi event ?)
Nice to know. Thanks a lot. Well the laptop will be probably the last thing I'd like to bash over the head of the mugger ;-) Cheers -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, Graduate Student @ Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org