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SubjectRe: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

>however, the firmware update did not solve the 'head not park'
>issue. :-(
>
>sudo ./park /dev/hda
>head not parked 4c

Head parking while the system running is almost useless, since sooner or
later, someone's going to write/read something.
If you want head parking at shutdown, I suggest using hdparm -y. This puts the
drive to sleep, which includes spindle spindown and, included, appropriate
head parking.


Jan Engelhardt
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