Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!gethen!farren
From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RESET BUTTONS AND HARD DISKS
Message-ID: <662@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 08:14:22 GMT
References: <3505@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <-497141@cpedev>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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>>I am told that a hardware reset button is a good idea if one has a hard 
>>disk. Why? 

Because it allows you to do a complete cold boot without powering down
the disk drive.  If the disk is powered down, and it doesn't have auto-
parking (as most smaller disks do not), then the heads land wherever
they happen to be.  This will most likely not be a problem, but it could
be - you could lose data.  The reset button will allow the heads to keep
flying, thus never touching the surface, thus preventing this type of
data lossage.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame