From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 25 14:22:32 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 696AC99A9F7 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:22:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F5622F0 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-38-7.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.38.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2127F278E6; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:22:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id t7PEMTJj002424; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:22:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:22:29 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk Cc: Ralf Mardorf , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: Stop using a SATA drive Message-Id: <20150825162229.8d15c4ef.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20150824214252.53aa04c6.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150825003135.48defc18@moonstudio> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:22:32 -0000 On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:47:03 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > 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 . Correct. That was the famous PARK.COM. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...