Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:12:41 +0100 From: Jacques Foucry <jacques+freebsd@foucry.net> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the "better / best " method to multi-boot different OSes natively WITHOUT VirtualBox(es) ? [a little bit off topic] Message-ID: <20201027071241.GB84789@mithril> In-Reply-To: <20201026231422.1b03652d@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <CALMiprbGBaSJQUAA=1HDZAjvsVNK7dqB_5mBb5DKzV16F3hxHg@mail.gmail.com> <20201024111010.5c867e8540a369b826d26703@sohara.org> <20201025065025.6a13dc89@archlinux> <20201025173321.8adee3e5.freebsd@edvax.de> <20201026153012.0cf46ec8@gumby.homeunix.com> <10e0134ddb726ac78174a63bd20ec0bdeb3c896d.camel@riseup.net> <20201026204524.7959ae0b@gumby.homeunix.com> <7256578c-3ad2-2a21-f904-474a5ba7d6a6@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20201026231422.1b03652d@gumby.homeunix.com>
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Le lundi 26 oct. 2020 à 23:14:22 (+0000), RW via freebsd-questions à écrit: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:25:10 -0500 > Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > > > Note that I was talking specifically about head parking rather then > > > power cycling in general. Your anecdote is about power cycling, not > > > specifically parking. > > > > > > > Is parking heads not just powering off magnet that positions heads on > > data tracks? > > On shutdown hard drives turn their spindle motor into a generator to > power the parking. Parking is clearly not passive. Whaou… I know parking is not automatic, but when I learned computing we had to use the command `park` to really park the HDD head and we eared a very spacial sound telling the head have be really parked, before turning off the computer (Micral 80/22 G, around 1984) Thanks for the come back in old days… :-) -- Jacques Foucry
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