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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac as airline hand baggage
Summary: Not quite true
Keywords: Shipping Hard Drive Parking Heads
Message-ID: <388@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Jul 89 05:27:05 GMT
References: <362@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <326@zooks.Morgan.COM>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <326@zooks.Morgan.COM> jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:

>Uh, I thought that most SCSI disks automatically retract the heads on
>power-down ... i've never seen a way to "park" a Mac hard drive.

Actually, not all hard drives automatically park themselves.  I own a
HyperDrive FX/20.  It does not park the heads at shutdown.  You have to 
run their head-parking software before shutting down.  Also, in general, hard
drives won't park the heads on being powered-down.  Various drives _will_ park
if you properly shutdown the Mac (from the finder's Special menu), but this is
software-based.  Therefore, (for you internal drive folks) it is especially
important to remember to shutdown properly after the airline security folks
have you turn on the Mac to prove that it is what it looks like.

--Mike