From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ichi@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: hard drive head parking in linux Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:58:08 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DF62B30.61D34D7A@ihug.co.nz> References: <200212092132.OAA04397@cu.imt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jerry James Haumberger Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Jerry James Haumberger wrote: > > I understand that early PC hard drives had to have > their heads parked when shut down, A blast from the past. Yes, indeed, pre-IDE drives (two data cables) needed parking. Over the years I've had several of these monsters. I even installed a small Linux on one (it had to be small 'cause the HD was only 20mb :-). Did you know that the latest Slackware (8.1) still provides a stock kernel (xt.i) for such drives? Imagine that: a 2.4.18 kernel on an old Seagate MFM. > Jerry... on a 486 DX2-50MHz with 8MB RAM in BasicLinux 1.7 > and Midnight Commander at the lab of Classic Systems, Ltd. You gotta give credit to Jerry. He doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. A close reading of his message header reveals that he is indeed using a minimalist mailer for this list. Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs