Re: hard drive head parking in linux

[Chuck Gelm <nc8q@gelm.net>]

Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
> 
> Hello, Steven --
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> But do you know whether or not Linux lifts the HD heads after a
> period of inactivity, or is this already an automatic feature
> of the later hard drives... say, my (approx.) 700MB HD on
                                                ^^^^^^^^
 They made MFM or RLL drives that big?
I would guess that a drive that big is IDE.  :-|

Regards, Chuck
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