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[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The one I remember best was having to use the DOS 'park' command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 month ago

Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "yoi can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".

What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, old drives didn't autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.

I'm right there with ya. Don't forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yup. Thankfully that β€œfeature” went away real quick and it became automatic.

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