>Parking the drive is a good idea if you plan to move it around becasue I
>think it helps prevent dammage to the the drive when transported. I don't
>know that it'd make a difference if the computer is just moving around the
>house or something though. My solution would be to make a DOS boot disk
>with park on it, stick the disk in drive A, and re-boot and run park just
>before shutting the power off.
After a certain point in the technology, drives became self parking
(weak spring in mechanism did it). So for those drives, parking is
redundant but harmless. Still worth doing for old drives I suppose.
