On 12.02.05, 10:13:46, David Laight wrote:
> 
> Failure of the last few cylinders could be caused by that part of the
> disk being where the heads land when powered off.  This does cause some
> damage.

The parking area shouldn't be inside the reported geometry, should
it?

That's the whole point of parking the heads when powering off, so
the heads do _not_ touch down on a used area. This causes more than
just "some" damage, it makes the area unusable very quickly.

> 
> 	David
> 
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> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk

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