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From: ichi@ihug.co.nz
To: Jerry James Haumberger <jerryjh@imt.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hard drive head parking in linux
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:53:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF6FD0F.677FEE3C@ihug.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200212101811.LAA18667@cu.imt.net

Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
> 
> is this already an automatic feature of the 
> later hard drives... 

Yes, AFAIK this is an automatic feature of all IDE drives.

> Or are you implying that the "stock kernel (xt.i)" 
> *does* support this hard drive head parking/"resting" 
> feature... for XTs and later hard drives?

Hmmm, I don't know.  xt.i contains support for the 
non-IDE HD block device, but I have no idea whether 
this includes parking.  My guess would be: probably not.

It's not a big issue (it will be a very rare bird that
runs Linux on an old XT HD).  If you want to protect the
HD, just reset to DOS and run the park utility before 
powering down.

Cheers,
Steven

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-10 18:12 hard drive head parking in linux Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-10 20:58 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-11  8:53 ` ichi [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-10 21:22 Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-10 22:28 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-09 21:36 Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-10 17:58 ` ichi
2002-12-11  4:52 ` Ralph Gesler

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