[Bulk] Re: Stop using a SATA drive

[Polytropon]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:47:03 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>
> 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. 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.
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> 
> For the MFM disks , it was necessary to park the heads with a program
> execution before shut down the system .

Correct. That was the famous PARK.COM. :-)




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