"Stubby" wrote in message
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There is no way to park a drive that has heads riding on the surface.

Modern drives don't have heads riding on the surface. They all "fly" above
the surface, on a very thin cushion of air. That's the reason that
high-altitude operation is a problem.

Are you saying that you have a reference that says there is no defined
landing zone on the current crop of drives, and thus you infer that because
of that, the head are in contact with the platters?

I'm really having a hard time trying to figure out what your point is. You
don't appear to understand how modern drives work, but at the same time all
of your posts are so brief, and so seemingly irrelevant to the topic at
hand, it''s difficult to understand what it is you are actually trying to
say.

Pete