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System On / Off
Parking
The heads on a hard
disk
utIoat" just above the
surface of the
disk
when the
hard disk
is in operation and
rest on the surface when the
hard disk is turned off.
'1b
prevent damage· to the data when the heads are resting
on the disk, the· heads
are
usually parked before the
hard
disk is turned
off; that is, they are moved to an W1used
area
of the
disk.
Parking
is
often initiated by the user,
but Mac Disk
does it automatically with the Auto-Park feature.
Auto-Park parks the heads after
7
seconds of inactivity.
It
is
important to wait about
10
seconds after your last
access to Mac Disk to give Auto-Park a chance to park the
heads before you
turn
off your system.
WARNING:
You
can
damage
Mac Disk and lose
your
information
if you turn the Macintosh or Mac
Disk
off
while Mac Disk
is
perfonning read or
vvrite operations.
Tuming Off Your System
Give
Auto-Park about
10
seconds to park the heads.
Turn
off the
Macintosh, then turn off
the
iYIac
Disk.
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©
Copyright 1985
Davong
Systems.
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