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From: buck@granite.cr.bull.com (Kenneth J. Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Danger of not parking HD?
Keywords: Error reading drive c: (Abort, Retry, Self-Destruct)?
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.143743.23911@granite.cr.bull.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 14:37:43 GMT
References: <795@ra.MsState.Edu>
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
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In article <795@ra.MsState.Edu> pam1@ra.MsState.Edu
   (Phillip A. McReynolds) writes:
>Is there much serious danger in leaving my heads unparked?

This brings up a more general question upon which I am uninformed.
Do some/all/none hard drives in use these days support autoparking heads, or
is it still something that must be done manually?

It seems that this is something which should be able to be done automatically
upon machine shutdown (when the drive or controller detects power loss, or
something).  I would have thought that by now, all drives would do this.

What is the _real_ story here, please?