From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 24 23:47:04 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B61B9C17B5 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 23:47:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22c.google.com (mail-io0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6F73E1BAF for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 23:47:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: by iods203 with SMTP id s203so167884899iod.0 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:47:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=0zo99U0XA4MGWtHy7Q1nfVvSZ7w1IZ3MOs837MENPkI=; b=WWSBk4tZEt5QfZyGJlf7xEFG2JpCT8NNO3w+sd8LMAUi2hriDwjyVJu0C3L952cAco GcAX0Ywe6abdWmjUNPMfVCbUT6MzmQj4CQe4mi7tuPgYUexy+P2hgmIJyjDQ7If9yEDP 3aEwLBHcOQMrXPgXzVYLsv4yWdvYD+zoo30fDA/kefZ7nYHYpR/GjqQTTyS8GWaE1eyJ EodAaRWIx1xIcb0J6ucIHaQmxOVxQ+sQQbKymsT3hRMWbPa2SJJvCKd8IGs2ZaOSs4KT AucQ5sRm/7ztRQJxUgYyBLFYSWFEcfKLo+w9a8JR67rS74eOUuXOOAVpJZouTz6/8Z17 110g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.130.153 with SMTP id m25mr20311172ioi.192.1440460023700; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:47:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.15.33 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:47:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150825003135.48defc18@moonstudio> References: <20150824214252.53aa04c6.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150825003135.48defc18@moonstudio> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:47:03 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: Stop using a SATA drive From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Ralf Mardorf Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 23:47:04 -0000 On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 3:31 PM, 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. 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