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- From: hinr@hobo.ECE.ORST.EDU (Robert Hinz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: PB HD Warning
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.015723.8181@talon.ucs.orst.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 01:57:23 GMT
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- In article <892@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labccc@emory.edu (Chris Chung) writes:
- >
- >When carrying around your PB's, your should shut down, NOT sleep.
- >The sleep mode doesn't park the R/W head of the HD. You can risk
- >crashing your HD and worse.... permanently damaging your HD.
- >The sleep mode is cool in that if you need to leave and haven't
- >finished what you're doing you can pick up where you stopped.
- >Unfortunalely you kinka have to give that up to protect your HD.
- >Apple shout make a sleep mode that parks the heads.
- >
- >Chris Chung
-
- This is not what I have heard from several sources. As I understand it
- the PB _does_ park the HD heads when it sleeps. In addition Apple gives no
- warning that I can find about transporting a sleeping PB. Where did you
- get your information? Does anyone know for SURE? Where are you Blue Meanies
- from Apple? Let's have th real scoop here!
-
- Rob Hinz
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Oregon State University
- hinr@ece.orst.edu
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