10 Sep
2012
10 Sep
'12
12:22 p.m.
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Jon Elson wrote:
And mine... Some of my older (demountable :-)) hard drives do have
auto-parking on power down. With little NiCd batteries which are
connected to the positioner coil (via a switc hthat homes when the heads
are retracted) wo whip the heads off the disk when the mains fails.
Anyway, all drives that are supposed to be parked
can be assumed to handle
it autonomously when power is removed, for nearly the last 20 years.
A very DANGEROUS assumption.
My stuff is older than that. Hell, I have stuff in the back of my refrigerator
older than that.
Photographic film?
-tony