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From: neese@cpedev.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RESET BUTTONS AND HARD DISKS
Message-ID: <-497141@cpedev>
Date: 1 Feb 88 16:27:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cpedev.UUCP!neese    Feb  1 10:27:00 1988


>I am told that a hardware reset button is a good idea if one has a hard 
>disk. Why? 

Beats me, other than it keeps you from powering down the system in the
advent of a crash.  This keeps the power supply from taking the 
completely unneccessary power hit from the drive on power-up.

>I always park the heads before turning the machine off. What is the danger
>of not doing so?

Most drives will automatically park thier heads when power is removed.
Although the cheaper drives do not.  If you intend on moving the system,
then you better park the heads.  This is just a safe thing to do.  More
often than not you will be okay, but the penalty for not doing it is
a complete loss of data.  Not the best thing in the world to happen.

>I have an IBM PC and a Seagate ST238 hard disk. 
>Thank you in advance for your help.

Park this beast before moving or anything else.

						Roy Neese
					UUCP @	ihnp4!sys1!cpe!neese