Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:47:03 -0700 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: Stop using a SATA drive Message-ID: <CAOgwaMth-XYQGdjnK02RN7x_rq4ZiXt2uHEE7WvDQYR9MnsoqQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150825003135.48defc18@moonstudio> References: <CAPi0psvT5aaHR7kU%2B28qwVDdutyMn7LjhFUGZRWctz4gGfgvgw@mail.gmail.com> <20150824214252.53aa04c6.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAPi0psu5pP_Z7FcR8h5cQAZiZyDmQTKWzFx-17tUEV5g-%2B7hjw@mail.gmail.com> <20150825003135.48defc18@moonstudio>
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@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 . Later on , IDE disks removed this manual operation , i.e. , parking become automatic . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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