Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs3b3aj
From: cs3b3aj@maccs.McMaster.CA (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Laptop harddisk
Summary: Autoparking hard drives
Message-ID: <2504@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 22 Apr 89 18:07:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.2504
References: <9994@netnews.upenn.edu> <8090019@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: cs3b3aj@maccs.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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In article <8090019@hpsemc.HP.COM> gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz) writes:
>   Most of the hard disks are well cushioned so you may actually
>be able to use it on your lap, but do you want to take the chance?
>   There is NO chance of the heads hitting the media when you carry
>it as the heads are PARKED when you turn the machine off.  Sooooooo
>don't carry it around while it's running!

   Some laptops (including at least one Toshiba, model number unknown)
have hard drives which automatically park after three or four seconds of
HD inactivity.  This is quite a handy feature if you're going to be shaking
the computer (why you'd want to, though, is beyond me) while using it.

   All in all, however, I agree with the notion that you should use the
thing on a relatively stable surface (if you're in California, this may be
difficult :-)
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