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From: cej@ll1.UUCP (One of the Jones Boys)
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Subject: Re: Re: Hard Disk for PC-6300
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Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 23:55:26 EST
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- > 	If you opt for a drive without this feature, and
- > forget to run the parking program before shutting down,
- > you *WILL* damage your drive.  It may take several
- > occurrances before you start losing files, but every
- > shutdown without prior parking will decrease the
- > reliability of your drive.
- 
- Most personal computers I am familiar with have a utility for
- parking the disk heads, but the documentation generally indicates
- that the heads only need to be parked if the computer is going to
- be moved.
- 
- Does anyone have more information on what drives do and do not require 
- explicit parking before shutdown?
- 
- Pete Fales

	The documentation does seem to be correct, and is in
agreement with all documentation I have ever seen for winchester
drives that don't auto-park.

	At one time I supported (installed/maintained) over 50 AT&T
6300s and IBM-PCs for a period of about a year and a half, and none
of the drives were ever parked except to be moved.  And in that
time, other than infant mortality, we had only one failure of a
drive that was related to the media or heads.  So you can feel quite
safe following the documentation.   This time... :-) 


...ihnp4!ll1!cej			Llewellyn Jones