Does anyone park hard drives anymore?

[Ral-Clan]

Hi,

I'm putting an Amiga away in storage for an indefinite period of time.  Should I park the heads on the hard drive?  Does anyone actually do that anymore?

I've never done it and never experienced a problem?

Is it even easy to do / undo?

[Ral-Clan]

Most newer drives do this automatically on shut down.
I'd forgotten that this had to be done on older drives/

Thanks, I didn't know that.  This is a "newish" drive (2.1 GB - so circa 2000?).

But Amiga's don't go through a shut down process that gives time/warning to the hard drive to park itself.  The power just suddenly gets cut to the whole system / os.

I don't really think it's a big issue, but I saw a utility on my Supra installation disk that allowed you to do this and wondered about it.