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- From: wong@athena.mit.edu (David C. Wong)
- Subject: Re: PB HD Warning
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:39:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.015723.8181@talon.ucs.orst.edu> hinr@hobo.ECE.ORST.EDU (Robert Hinz) writes:
- >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
-
- Rob, Chris is correct in his original post. The Macintosh User's Guide for
- PowerBooks states several times that the PowerBook should be shut down
- if you plan to move it anywhere. I take this as an indication that something
- is liable to move -- in this case, the hard drive heads.
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- --
- Respectfully submitted by David Wong <wong@athena.mit.edu>
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