7. Re: Flash based IDE drives...

["Tim Nielsen" supernielsen]

That's right, the idea isn't so much to save the hard drive in  
working order, it's to get the head off the data surface so it  
doesn't damage the disk, which could be recoverable. It's supposed to  
work fairly well, the head can park in a matter of milliseconds.

And some clever guys with an Apple laptop figured out how to use it  
as a joystick of sorts, to play pong, by just tilting your computer  
back and forth:, and even turn an SMS equipped notebook into a  
seismic detector:

http://tinyurl.com/2doqbe


On Jul 27, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Chris Edwards wrote:

> As I understand it, the "Sudden Motion Sensor" is supposed to  
> quickly park
> the heads somewhere out of harm's way, so when the impact comes,  
> the heads
> don't crash into the disk data surface.
>
> No idea how well it actually works!