Jerry James Haumberger wrote: > > is this already an automatic feature of the > later hard drives...
Yes, AFAIK this is an automatic feature of all IDE drives. > Or are you implying that the "stock kernel (xt.i)" > *does* support this hard drive head parking/"resting" > feature... for XTs and later hard drives? Hmmm, I don't know. xt.i contains support for the non-IDE HD block device, but I have no idea whether this includes parking. My guess would be: probably not. It's not a big issue (it will be a very rare bird that runs Linux on an old XT HD). If you want to protect the HD, just reset to DOS and run the park utility before powering down. Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
