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- From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: PB HD Warning
- Date: 13 Aug 1992 13:11:03 -0500
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- References: <892@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> <1992Aug13.015723.8181@talon.ucs.orst.edu> <1992Aug13.073938.11782@athena.mit.edu>
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- > is "sleep" good enough before moving a PB?
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- the manual states to shut it down (but it does not enumerate or
- warn about the exact concerns and dangers);
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- I suspect that "sleeping" would be ok sometimes, EXCEPT that
- as the machine is still on, the battery gets drained (faster)
- and that motion and pressures might cause the drive to wake/spin
- up, and that would be BAD NEWS indeed....
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- my car manual also states to turn off the engine, remove the
- keys and set the parking breaks, without going into any great
- details as to the relative/comparitive risks (which depend on
- the situation, crossing the English Channel on a ferry in a
- storm is certainly a different concern from the corner shopping
- center parking lot ... ;-)
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