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Re: [Q} Safety parking for ProDOS Hard Drive
- Subject: Re: [Q} Safety parking for ProDOS Hard Drive
- From: "Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 14:16:35 -0400
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
- References: <9ghp0n$chb$1@imsinews.kornet.net> <9ghs06$ntv$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:9162
"Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com> wrote in message
news:9ghs06$ntv$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> In article <9ghp0n$chb$1@imsinews.kornet.net>, "Kim Heui Jung"
> <spix2000@kornet.net> wrote:
>
> It should not be a problem. Hard drives have had auto parking heads for
many
> years, just turn the power off and the heads will park. I have never heard
> of a SCSI drive which did not have auto parking heads, even on old 20MB
> drives.
On this subject, I'm mildly amused that the Focus will allow you to manually
park the head and, as the manual states, park the heads automatically during
shutdown if FocusDriver is loaded. Notebook IDE drives, to the best of my
knowledge, are recent enough that I'd place good money that every single one
of them is auto-parking. *shrug*
Rodney