Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Leaving the hard disk on continuously
Keywords: hard disk park
Message-ID: <11570@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 Jul 88 15:55:46 GMT
References: <12184@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <12184@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> cotner@bosco.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Carl Cotner) writes:
  Your next disk access should unpark the heads. There are several PD
programs which park the heads after N seconds of non-use. I don't use
any TSRs anymore, but I test one at some time and it seemed to work.

| PS:  I'm also leaving my monitor on 24 hours a day, but with the brightness
| switch dimmed to pitch black, operating under the same assumption that
| transients during power on is not good for the monitor either.  Is this
| a reasonable assumption, or should I just switch the monitor off?

  I definitely wouldn't cycle power on the monitor during the day, I
would shut it down over a weekend (unless you're going to use it). I
personally power down my monitor every night, but the rationale for this
is primarily that this particular type of monitor has been know to burst
into flames at out site. The one I'm using has burned twice, although it
hasn't actually had flames coming out of the case yet.

  Mono monitors may be more sensitive to phosphor burn than color and
should be turned down when not in use. There are several programs which
do this after N sec on non-use.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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