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Re: [Q} Safety parking for ProDOS Hard Drive
- Subject: Re: [Q} Safety parking for ProDOS Hard Drive
- From: "Charles Stephens" <charles_stephens@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:25:25 -0700
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Department Math/CS, Emory University
- References: <9ghp0n$chb$1@imsinews.kornet.net> <9ghs06$ntv$1@lust.ihug.co.nz> <9gis66$t17$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net>
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"Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:9gis66$t17$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net...
> "Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:9ghs06$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*
Head parking is sometimes overloaded to mean 'eject' for removable media.
cfs