Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!valeria.cs.ucla.edu!wales From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Parking heads on my HD Message-ID: <38574@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 3 Sep 90 15:59:57 GMT References: <1990Sep2.212502.20996@simasd.uucp> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles Lines: 24 In article <1990Sep2.212502.20996@simasd.uucp> donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin) writes: You might first want to check drive specs to see if your hard drive is perhaps self parking, as many now are. Suppose the computer gets jolted while it's on (e.g., by an earthquake, or even if someone trips and bumps into the computer desk). In such circumstances, I would think that a "time-delayed park" program (one which parks the heads after a certain amount of time with no disk activity) would be useful. I run a program on my PC which parks the heads on both my drives after 30 seconds of inactivity. (The drives recover immediately when accessed again, by the way; they don't go through a lengthy, noisy recalibration cycle like some drives do.) Comments on this? -- -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 // +1 (213) 825-5683 "You must not drink the tea. It is deadly to humans."