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Parking your Hard Drive? :( Help me out please guys :)

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rockhard

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Im sending a IBM GXP hard drive to someone and was wondering how you "Park" the hard drive to make it safe for transit?

I remember doing this a long time ago when i used Win 3.1 but i cant remember the command to do it?
Not only that, im running Win2K so DOS is out yeah?

If you could help me out guys it'd be appreciated.

thanx,

rockhard =)
 
Someone correct me if I`m wrong but that was only used (park command) several years ago with very old hardrives... Newer and more modern HD`s do this automatic when the power is turned off... So I think there is no need to worry, but as I said unless someone else knows about this (please inform this person if I`m wrong...)
 
I'm not sure either, but I remember someone saying the same thing as BartMan. Newer hard drives automatically park themselves when they power down.
 
new ones auto park. You didnt really have to park any drives once IDE came out, the old ESDI ones and MFM/RLL you did
 
Yep, Parking is not needed for EIDE drives..
all you need is some bubble wrap and a decent box...




Craig
 
Ahhh... parking hard drives. That really brings back memories! I still remember my old 30MB harddrive that was about 50lbs, and when it read data, my entire desk would shake as the drive made these 'chuga-chuga' sounds.
 
wiat i have drive that parks, its an old laptop drive, and it has a little arm inside that you swing and then the read heads cant move, and it looks like there is an electro magnet on that smaller arm, but all the new drives i take apart dont have that arm, so i dont know if they really safely park, so i just pack it heavily.
I find whenever i move my pc majorly, like from home to work, or even from one floor of the house to another, it takes a few reboots to get it running right, so maybe parking is a worry, or it could be the big foot i have in their
 
A Marksman drive looked like the gearbox off a Maytag washing machine only bigger. The case being made of clear plastic, you could see the big clamp that grabbed the read-write heads for shipping. Oh for the good old days.
 
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