shutdown -p now wont park my HDD

[alie]

Hi guys,

anyone got this issue ? seems [CMD=""]shutdown -p now[/CMD] wont park my HDD coz i heard some noise from my HDD

 

[SirDice]

Modern harddisks park automatically as soon as the power's off.

 

[Deleted member 9563]

There's still a bunch of MFM drives out there. I wonder if it works on those or do you need a separate utility like the ones for DOS?

 

[vivek]

Today's hard disk drives automatically park and unpark under all modern oses including FreeBSD!

 

[SirDice]

Today's hard disk drives automatically park and unpark under all modern oses including FreeBSD!

Even without an OS

 

[mickey]

The last harddisk I had to park manually, had ST-506 interface :e

 

[Deleted member 9563]

The manual doesn't say anything about parking. From what I can see, the -p stands for "power".

-p The system is halted and the power is turned off (hardware sup-port required) at the specified time.

Maybe the OP misunderstood the meaning of the -p switch. Yes, IDE doesn't require parking, but there are still MFM/RLL drives that do require it. Perhaps the OP has an IDE drive, perhaps he doesn't. To me, the question remains, how do you park the heads?