IBM makes a hard drive with an accelerometer in it that migh accomplish what you're after. There's a linux driver for monitoring the HD status: http://www.thin

IBM makes a hard drive with an accelerometer in it that migh accomplish what you're after. There's a linux driver for monitoring the HD status: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS