cower@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Richard Cower) (10/15/87)
I'm planning on shipping my Mac II, and wondering if the heads on the disk park on power down. Is this something I should worry about? Also - would you put that little yellow floppy protector in? I've heard they cause more failures than they prevent. thanks..Rich
straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka) (10/16/87)
In article <433@russell.STANFORD.EDU> cower@russell.stanford.edu (Richard Cower) writes: |disk park on power down. Is this something I should worry about? Also - |would you put that little yellow floppy protector in? I've heard they |cause more failures than they prevent. I would suspect that using a floppy disk (preferably with no data on it for its sake) as a head protector during shipment would do just as good a job. The yellow plastic is just cheaper (for the manufacturer). -- Rich Straka ihnp4!ihlpf!straka Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."
cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (jeff t. segawa) (10/17/87)
In article <433@russell.STANFORD.EDU> cower@russell.stanford.edu (Richard Cower) writes: >would you put that little yellow floppy protector in? Yes. I dropped my old Mac Plus once, and it didn't have that protector in it at the time. After it ate an astonishing number of floppies, I figured out that the heads must have gotten scratched when they were smacked togther. Needless to say, I replaced the drive. As for the hard drive, some park automatically when the power is turned off, while others, like teh Seagate ST225N, do not. You have to specify which brand and model of hard disk you have.