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HDD Active Protection works for 2nd HDD (Ultrabay) as well?
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:48 am
by bessel
I am curious, if it doesn't, well, I will try more to avoid moving my T60 while doing work on the 2nd harddrive...
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:20 am
by renhui
I think YES.
The motion sensor is not built into the main HDD but in the unit itself. So whenever there is a sudden movement, it senses it and tells both of the HDDs.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:42 pm
by rbsrao79
Does active protection work on any drive make ? I remember reading a while ago that it only worked with hitachi (former ibm) drives. Is that true ?
Rajeev
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:21 pm
by renhui
I think so. Otherwise no one will be using non-Hitachi drives on thinkpads anymore.
rbsrao79 wrote:Does active protection work on any drive make ? I remember reading a while ago that it only worked with hitachi (former ibm) drives. Is that true ?
Rajeev
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:29 pm
by GomJabbar
rbsrao79 wrote:Does active protection work on any drive make ? I remember reading a while ago that it only worked with hitachi (former ibm) drives. Is that true ?
Rajeev
That doesn't make sense. My T42 came from the factory with a Fujitsu drive, and it has Active Protection.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:47 pm
by hoya
Yes, as of version 1.30b:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-58650
Symptoms corrected by version 1.30b
* (New) Support APS feature of 2nd HDD on Ultrabay Slim.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:53 pm
by christopher_wolf
HDAPS works on pretty much any HDD that is compatible with the Thinkpad. It has sensors inside the Thinkpad that, once they detect acceleration of a particular magnitude, will send a signal to ramp the HDD heads off platter. I don't quite understand why some think that it is on-board the HDD.
Also, the Ultrabay HDD, should one be present, responds to the HDAPS sensors as well.