=gnome-hdaps-applet

2006-01-20

Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Escombe [email protected]

Upstream site: [[http://www.zen24593.zen.co.uk/hdaps/]]

Maintainer's site: [[http://www.lyraphase.com/]]

== Description

A GNOME Panel Applet to display HDAPS protection status. Certain Lenovo Thinkpads have an accellerometer built in to detect falls or movements of the laptop. The hard drive active protection system daemon (hdapsd) watches this data and parks the hard drive head to protect the drive in the event of a fall.

Note that this applet depends on the following ubuntu packages: tp-smapi-source, hdapsd

For installation instructions for these dependencies on ubuntu, see: [[ http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Install_Ubuntu_9.10_%28Karmic_Koala%29_on_a_ThinkPad_T400#Extras | Install Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on a ThinkPad T400 ]] and [[http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System | Active Protection System on Thinkwiki ]]

== Features

Monitors the /sys/block/xxx/queue/protect file and displays a graphical representation of the HDAPS protection status. Looks for the protect file under hda and sda and will use whichever is found first (lame but works for now).

== Installation

To install this package, see file: INSTALL

== TODO

Create debian package from this ;-)