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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Leaving the hard disk on continuously
Keywords: hard disk park - DON'T DO IT DAILY!!!! POWER OFF AT NIGHT!!!!
Message-ID: <598@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 88 01:30:37 GMT
References: <12184@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <7837@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <7837@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, ajmyrvold@violet.waterloo.edu (Alan Myrvold) writes:
> I heard from an almost reliable source that parking the heads on a hard 
> disk actually retracts the thingamabob that reads the disk. Acording to
> my source, the joint which retracts the thingamabob becomes sloppy
> after overuse, causing it to skip on the media surface, bringing up
> chips of the magnetic media which scrape the **** out of the drive as
> the head goes round.
> 
  Good thing that none of the hard disks in our machines (up to 5 yrs. old,
  parked daily) ever heard of this problem...

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny