[Bulk] Re: Stop using a SATA drive

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:31:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:15:26 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
>>I didn't know that the heads were parked when the power is cut... but
>>that is a relief to hear.
>
>I own a around 40 MiB SCSI for an Atari from the late 80s.
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                               or early 90s?

>I simply turn of the power without sending a command first. So
>seemingly drives must be older than from the late 80s, to not provide
>automatically parking. Regarding the SATA Wiki, SATA was created in
>2003. Unlikely that a SATA without automatically parking
>existed/exists.