Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:55:01 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Gary Jennejohn <fbsd@jennejohn.org> Subject: Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach Message-ID: <200508232155.02444.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <430B11B0.20702@pacific.net.sg> References: <200508221720.j7MHKpNb022773@peedub.jennejohn.org> <430B11B0.20702@pacific.net.sg>
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--nextPart1692522.GCiPRPECMc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 23 August 2005 21:38, Erich Dollansky wrote: > The sensor will notice already the start of the move. The notebook will > then normally be accalerated with 1G as it simply goes into a free fall. > > If the heads are then moved away from the disks and the notebook hits > some ms later ground, it does not matter any more if this event takes > micro- or milliseconds as the heads are already out of the danger zone. mmm.. There is a static 1G force on the laptop while it is on your desk. Wh= en=20 it falls it goes to 0G as it is in free fall. Still.. "delta G =3D=3D park laptop heads" :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1692522.GCiPRPECMc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDCxWe5ZPcIHs/zowRAgDpAKCZ/Gq4ab+Jmf06msi2KXCyFzrdjQCgnc3C IAjnKQY7D/fkVg5eow+gLM4= =6iAJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1692522.GCiPRPECMc--
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