How to setup hard drive shock protection with applesmc?

Hi,
I've read that the applesmc module allows to read the motion sensors in intel macbooks. I've checked with lsmod and the module is loaded in my machine.
How do I make sure that shock protection is enabled? AFAIK, there should be a daemon running that reads the sensor data (using the files exposed by spplesmc). Which daemon would that be?
Thanks.

No, I'm not really sure. I'm assuming that's something that the OS needs to take care of since there are posts and articles that talk about how to set it up (All the ones I've found are for the IBM thinkpads)
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System

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