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ancient_archer

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2010-03-13

Posts: 107

[SOLVED] hdaps for other notebooks than Lenovo/IBM

Hello.

I got a Toshiba Satellite T130-10G. Lately, I've been wondering if the HDD protection works in Arch.

Is there a way how to find out whether it works?
And if such a protection is not present on my notebook, is installing and enabling hdapsd via AUR a good option since I got a Toshiba and not a Lenovo?

I've been doing some research on that topic, but most of the things I found tend to be out-dated and the answer is not clear... Perhaps now something like HDAPS is included in kernel. I don't know...

Any ideas?

Last edited by ancient_archer (2011-09-05 16:26:16)

masteryod

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 433

Re: [SOLVED] hdaps for other notebooks than Lenovo/IBM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_har … protection

and

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HDAPS

I've been using t43 about year ago and hdaps was running just fine. I just went with the arch wiki artictle, stock kernel no problems, I even had nice kde4 plasma widget. But HDAPS needs special hardware, you can't make every single notebook to be HDAPS aware even if it's toshiba it still might be not equipped with required hardware.

PS if your hardware is not HDAPS capable, enabling it won't do anything, it simply won't work.

ancient_archer

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2010-03-13

Posts: 107

Re: [SOLVED] hdaps for other notebooks than Lenovo/IBM

Thank you for the advice. I tried installing hdaps from Yaourt but it didn't work. Still, I wonder if there is something like built-in HDD protection for Toshiba in kernel.