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- Kernel driver toshiba_haps
- Toshiba HDD Active Protection Sensor
- ====================================
- Author: Azael Avalos <coproscefalo@gmail.com>
- 0. Contents
- -----------
- 1. Description
- 2. Interface
- 3. Accelerometer axes
- 4. Supported devices
- 5. Usage
- 1. Description
- --------------
- This driver provides support for the accelerometer found in various Toshiba
- laptops, being called "Toshiba HDD Protection - Shock Sensor" officially,
- and detects laptops automatically with this device.
- On Windows, Toshiba provided software monitors this device and provides
- automatic HDD protection (head unload) on sudden moves or harsh vibrations,
- however, this driver only provides a notification via a sysfs file to let
- userspace tools or daemons act accordingly, as well as providing a sysfs
- file to set the desired protection level or sensor sensibility.
- 2. Interface
- ------------
- This device comes with 3 methods:
- _STA - Checks existence of the device, returning Zero if the device does not
- exists or is not supported.
- PTLV - Sets the desired protection level.
- RSSS - Shuts down the HDD protection interface for a few seconds,
- then restores normal operation.
- Note:
- The presence of Solid State Drives (SSD) can make this driver to fail loading,
- given the fact that such drives have no movable parts, and thus, not requiring
- any "protection" as well as failing during the evaluation of the _STA method
- found under this device.
- 3. Accelerometer axes
- ---------------------
- This device does not report any axes, however, to query the sensor position
- a couple HCI (Hardware Configuration Interface) calls (0x6D and 0xA6) are
- provided to query such information, handled by the kernel module toshiba_acpi
- since kernel version 3.15.
- 4. Supported devices
- --------------------
- This driver binds itself to the ACPI device TOS620A, and any Toshiba laptop
- with this device is supported, given the fact that they have the presence of
- conventional HDD and not only SSD, or a combination of both HDD and SSD.
- 5. Usage
- --------
- The sysfs files under /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/TOS620A:00/ are:
- protection_level - The protection_level is readable and writeable, and
- provides a way to let userspace query the current protection
- level, as well as set the desired protection level, the
- available protection levels are:
- 0 - Disabled | 1 - Low | 2 - Medium | 3 - High
- reset_protection - The reset_protection entry is writeable only, being "1"
- the only parameter it accepts, it is used to trigger
- a reset of the protection interface.
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