From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Gelm Subject: Re: hard drive head parking in linux Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:58:18 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DF6556A.6C6B5832@gelm.net> References: <200212101811.LAA18667@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: > > 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 - 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