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Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard?

From Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.portables
Subject Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard?
Date 2020-07-16 04:00 +0000
Organization Miskatonic U
Message-ID <slrnrgvk7h.10ni.g.kreme@ProMini.lan> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <POmdnZbAI_KfCZPCnZ2dnUU7-XGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <rem6t6$5aj$1@gioia.aioe.org> <8pCdnbv4UtDfJJPCnZ2dnUU7-e-dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <slrnrgtgvc.49j.g.kreme@ProMini.lan> <87WdnX5obo_cI5LCnZ2dnUU7-eOdnZ2d@earthlink.com>

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In message <87WdnX5obo_cI5LCnZ2dnUU7-eOdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> In comp.sys.mac.portables Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> ...
>> >> Sudden Motion Sensor
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Motion_Sensor>

>> >> I don't know that it's supposed to reboot. It's meant to park the heads 
>> >> on a hard drive so that there is less chance of the drive being damaged 
>> >> in a fall. Of course, it's pretty much useless with an SSD equiped Mac.

>> > Thanks and interesting. Yeah, it did reboot. It was just a hard slam/hit on the desk 

>> It was enough of a shoc that the system took the steps to protect the
>> drive and the data.

> So, it still does that for SSDs too? I was surprised to see everything back even the logged 
> Firefox v78.0.2 web site session.

You said a 2012 MBP, so that machine was designed for spinning hard
drives, though SSDs were an option.

As the wikipedia page states, it only exists in machines that support
hard drives (though the page says laptops, and I think that is not
accurate, but I may be misremembering.

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MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard?  ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-07-13 15:50 -0500
  Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-07-13 21:12 +0000
  Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2020-07-13 23:20 +0000
    Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-07-15 00:28 -0500
      Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-07-15 18:15 +1200
        Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-07-15 03:07 -0500
          Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2020-07-15 08:53 +0000
            Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-07-15 21:41 -0500
              Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2020-07-16 04:00 +0000
          Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-07-16 08:32 +1200
            Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-07-15 21:43 -0500
              Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-07-16 15:05 +1200
                Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-07-15 22:14 -0500
                Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-07-16 19:24 +1200
                Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-16 10:22 -0400
      Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) rebooted when its desk got slammed hard? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2020-07-15 08:51 +0000

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