No accelerometer HDD protection on a Toshiba Satellite A665
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I have this Toshiba Satellite A665, which comes with a 3D accelerometer. The purpose of this accelerometers is to measure the relative magnitude (and direction) of the acceleration of gravity. In the event the device enter in a free fall, the magnitude of the acceleration changes and this is used to park the HD heads and protect the integrity of the data. I have support for HDD protection in Win7, but it's not included in Ubuntu, and there seems to be not a single driver out there. HDAPS doesn't support my PC, only Macbooks and IBM computers, and it's very dangerous for me to use my system without protection, my HDD already died once because of disabling HDD protection.
It would be great if we could have accelerometer support in Ubuntu.
Maybe it would be possible to reverse engineer the driver from Windows, by decompiling it and porting the code to linux kernel? A framework for all accelerometers would be great.
Thanks.
| affects: | ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
