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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Parking - is it really necessary???
Message-ID: <13372@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 16 Mar 89 21:23:44 GMT
References: <8087@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <8087@xanth.cs.odu.edu> aiko@cs.odu.edu (John K Hayes) writes:

| I've heard a few different opinions about when to park a hard disk.  Some
| say you should park the disk just before you turn off the machine every time
| you turn it off.  I've also heard you don't need to park the heads unless
| you're going to move the machine (this is the opinion I lean toward).

  I find it hard to justify NOT parking the heads. Higher priced hard
disks usually park the heads themselved on powerdown. This insures that
if there's a problem at powerup you don't lose the disk data.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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