Integrate hdaps_protect for hard disk protection

The latest protect patch as well as some comments for the release can be found on the net, e.g. here:

http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.linux.drivers.hdaps.devel/last=/force_load=t

I strongly support the inclusion of the disk protect patch!

Thanks in advance for your work!

The issue is BIG. During the last month I managed to break two hard disks and could be related with the lack of support for this, and have been seriously thinking about going back to Windows only for this reason.

Finally I've managed to rebuild kernel packages patched for hdaps parking support and now is working OK. I left documented steps in http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_8.04_(Hardy_Heron)_on_a_ThinkPad_T60#Active_Protection_System_.28Reduced_Power_Version.29 and uploaded some binary debs (amd64) in megaupload.com

I hope kernel developers take note and include this in further releases.

The disk shock protection support will be included in 2.6.28.

Elias Oltmanns, the author of this patch, backported his patch to 2.6.27-rc8. It can be found here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.hdaps.devel/1379

But as the sysfs interface changed, a new hdapsd is needed. There's already a request to add it to the Debian archive: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/hdapsd/

Would be great to see it in Intrepid.

In Ubuntu Intrepid, hdaps_ec.ko is gone, only hdaps.ko which is not compatible with my thinkpads (T60 & X61). Yep. Great.

Hi Jaime,

You may try building tp_smapi from source. It requires installing linux-source, unpacking the tarball at /usr/src and then making a symlink to /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source

More detailed instructions here:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi#Installation_on_older_Ubuntu.2FDebian

Link to the latest tp_smapi:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1212

You should be more lucky than I am, since tp_smapi currently doesn't work on Centrino 2 thinkpads (x200s, T400 and T500 confirmed)

By the way, bug #297213 was opened due to missing hdaps_ec in Intrepid kernels.

Ok, thanks for the tip I'll try ASAP

(Gracias, Miguel...!)

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Miguel Martinez <email address hidden> wrote:

> By the way, bug #297213 was opened due to missing hdaps_ec in Intrepid
> kernels.
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> Integrate hdaps_protect for hard disk protection
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256817
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Building tp_smapi is not a solution for X61s (Centrino 2 too)
Is there any hdaps.ko equivalent available for Centrino 2 Thinkpads?

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Is this bug still relevant? Hasn't the disk head protection stuff been merged upstream in the latest kernels? (and thus karmic)

The functionality is merged upstream since kernel 2.6.28.