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* The [http://www.dresco.co.uk/hdaps/ <tt>hdaps_protect</tt>] disk protection kernel patch, which exports a sysfs interface that enables an ide or sata disk to be protected by a userspace process. | * The [http://www.dresco.co.uk/hdaps/ <tt>hdaps_protect</tt>] disk protection kernel patch, which exports a sysfs interface that enables an ide or sata disk to be protected by a userspace process. | ||
* The [http://www.dresco.co.uk/hdaps/ <tt>hdapsd</tt>] disk protection userspace daemon. It monitors the acceleration values through the HDAPS interface and automatically initiates disk protection through the hdaps_protect interface - given that the movement exceeds a user specified threshold. | * The [http://www.dresco.co.uk/hdaps/ <tt>hdapsd</tt>] disk protection userspace daemon. It monitors the acceleration values through the HDAPS interface and automatically initiates disk protection through the hdaps_protect interface - given that the movement exceeds a user specified threshold. | ||
| − | * Optional: the [http://roy.marples.name/node/269 khdapsmonitor | + | * Optional: the [http://roy.marples.name/node/269 khdapsmonitor KDE System Tray applet] or the [http://www.dresco.co.uk/hdaps/ <tt>gnome-hdaps-applet</tt>]. These applets provide a visual indication of the disk protection status and also a graphical interface for adjusting configuration options for <tt>hdapsd</tt>. |
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==Troubleshooting== | ==Troubleshooting== | ||
Revision as of 19:45, 15 March 2007
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This page tells you how to make the Active Protection System work under Linux to protect your harddrive from damage in case of a notebook drop or other kind of impact while it is running. Specific instructions for Fedora can be found here. How APS works in LinuxAPS in Linux consists of four components on the software side:
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Installation
As mentioned above, the hdaps kernel driver found in recent kernels is only responsible for reading the accelerometer data and exporting it through the sysfs interface.
In order to use this information to protect the disk, some additional steps are required.
- Download and build the latest hdaps_protect disk protection kernel patches.
- Enable the drivers in the kernel (requires kernel rebuild).
- Download, build and configure the hdapsd userspace daemon.
- Download and build one of the applets to get a real-time representation of the disk protection status.
Getting the files
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| Fedora | see instructions here
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Adding kernel support
A kernel patch is required for disk head parking and queue freezing.
Manually patching and compiling a kernel
As root, do:
# cd /usr/src/linux# patch -p1 < ~/hdaps_protect.20060409.patch# make clean# make# make modules_install
Installing hdapsd
Manual compilation from source
- Download the hdapsd sources (see above)
- Compile using
# gcc -o hdapsd hdapsd-*.c - Run
# ./hdapsd -d sda -s 12 -a(replace sda with your hard disk device; run# ./hdapsdwithout arguments for help)
Gentoo
Gentoo users can try the ebuild attached to gentoo bug 119845.
NOTE!
hdapsd was added to the official portage tree on the 26th June 2006.
- Add hdapsd support in your kernel: device drivers -> hardware monitoring -> ... (you need it as a module if you want to use tp_smapi and hdaps, see Tp_smapi)
- Download the ebuild, use same ebuild date as the kernel-patch.
- Make known the portage an extern ebuild path and add the following line to /etc/make.conf:
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/" (or any other location)
- Create directory /usr/local/portage and /usr/local/portage/app-laptop/
- Copy the downloaded ebuild to /usr/local/portage/app-laptop (/usr/local/portage/app-laptop/hdapsd should now exists)
- Make portage known the new ebuild and creat digist with:
# ebuild /usr/local/portage/app-laptop/hdapsd/hdapsd-20060326.ebuild digest
- Optional: Copy source file to portage distfiles (if no internet connection is available):
# cp hdapsd-20060326.c /usr/portage/distfiles
- Accept the x86 keyword for this package:
# echo "app-laptop/hdapsd ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords - Install hdapsd with:
# emerge hdapsd. - Edit /etc/conf.d/hdapsd (change your harddrive if neccessary: mine is sda, and change the value from 5, 5 is to sensitive, 12 is a good value in my opinion).
- start deamon with:
# /etc/init.d/hdapsd start - Optional: add to default runlevel:
# rc-update add hdapsd default, rc-update add hdapsd battery
Write an eMail to abartel[äd]htwm.de, if you want to get my hdapsd-20060326.ebuild and please upload it.
Building an applet
hdaps-gl
- Make sure you have installed hdaps [and loaded] and ?opengl?
- Download hdaps-gl-0.0.5 from the web.
- Extract files to /opt/hdaps-gl.
# make- Start the applet:
# ./hdaps-gl
Troubleshooting
See the Problem with APS harddisk parking page for troubleshooting APS issues.
NOTE!
If you use tp_smapi, remember to include the option HDAPS=1 when installing tp_smapi. Also, you might need to build the hdaps driver as module.
Further Information
- Additonal information and support is available through the hdaps-devel mailinglist and its archive.
