[H-GEN] spinning down (longish)

[Trent WADDINGTON]

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On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Sarah Hollings wrote:

> Some of this deep magic and suspicion I think harks back to the days
> when your drives geometry was what it said it was, and you had to run
> "park" under DOS, before you powered the machine down.

Heh. I try to mention "park" whenever someone nags me about turning my
"screen saver" off.

Trent


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