What is the "better / best " method to multi-boot different OSes natively WITHOUT VirtualBox(es) ? [a little bit off topic]

Jacques Foucry jacques+freebsd at foucry.net
Tue Oct 27 07:13:09 UTC 2020


Le lundi 26 oct. 2020 à 23:14:22 (+0000), RW via freebsd-questions à écrit:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:25:10 -0500
> Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Note that I was talking specifically about head parking rather then
> > > power cycling in general. Your anecdote is about power cycling, not
> > > specifically parking.
> > >   
> > 
> > Is parking heads not just powering off magnet that positions heads on 
> > data tracks? 
> 
> On shutdown hard drives turn their spindle motor into a generator to
> power the parking. Parking is clearly not passive. 

Whaou… I know parking is not automatic, but when I learned computing we had to
use the command `park` to really park the HDD head and we eared a very spacial
sound telling the head have be really parked, before turning off the computer
(Micral 80/22 G, around 1984)


Thanks for the come back in old days… :-)

-- 
Jacques Foucry


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