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by userbinator 484 days ago
Only on early hard drives that used stepper motor actuators.
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...but most people got their systems from their job in those days and so wouldn't get told this little tidbit for obvious reasons; You Must Park Before Swithing Off. I did get unlucky somewhere begin 80s when my father brought home a luggable, I didn't park, he lugged it back and the hd was damaged.