From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 12:25:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4FE16A41F for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:25:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA2E43D45 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:25:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp221-243.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.221.243]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7NCP8Jj054300 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:55:13 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:55:01 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200508221720.j7MHKpNb022773@peedub.jennejohn.org> <430B11B0.20702@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <430B11B0.20702@pacific.net.sg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1692522.GCiPRPECMc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200508232155.02444.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Gary Jennejohn Subject: Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:25:17 -0000 --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--