on old comps...what did it mean to "park the head" (HDs that is)?

[eLiu]

-nt

 

[DaveJ]

Older HDs had a "landing zone" where the drive heads would rest against the platter when the drive was turned off. Moving the heads to this zone is also known as "parking" the heads...

Dave

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Plus it made that cool sound

 

[etech]

The heads would move to the edge of the platter or just off of it. This would keep the heads from hitting the disk if the heads bounced during movement of the computer.

 

[jlee75]

<< Older HDs had a "landing zone" where the drive heads would rest against the platter when the drive was turned off. Moving the heads to this zone is also known as "parking" the heads...

Dave >>


damn you beat me to it. my post timed out! heheh yeah what he said. i recall seeing this a long time ago. but this caused some problems with some of my HDs where the parked head remained parked.

 

[erub]

yeah, i remember this old park DOS command i used to run on my 386

 

[walrus]

C:>park Or something like that I can't remember any old DOS comands. I was reformating a HD and it took a wile to remember how to exit.