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I don't want to park them on turn off. I want to park them before a possible strong shock which could cause damage and unpark them
afterwards.

Thanks

maik



                                                                                                                                    
             Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net>                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
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At 11:32 PM 8/16/2005, m.ehinger@ltur.de wrote:
>Hi,
>
>which is the correct way to park the hd head?

Seagate drives park the heads automatically when they are turned
off.  As far as I know, this applies to other manufacturer's drives as well.

-Glenn


>I need it for the IBM Active Protection System implementation under FreeBSD.
>I got an working Accelerometer driver so far.
>
>BSD Version downloadable at
>https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=138242
>
>thanks
>
>maik
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