There is no way to park a drive that has heads riding on the surface.
That's been the way nearly all disk drives work since the mid-1980s. I
believe the technology was invented by IBM in their San Jose disk facility.




Peter Duniho wrote:
"Stubby" wrote in message
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My understanding is that modern disks have the heads riding in contact
with the surface.
Your understanding is incorrect.

Why is there no defined "Landing Zone" on the current crop of drives?

Non-sequitur.

First, why would you think that "there is no defined 'Landing Zone' on the
current crop of drives"? Second, in what way does the presence or lack
thereof of a "Landing Zone" have to do with whether the heads contact the
surface during normal operation?

The landing zone is a place where the heads can rest when they are not being
used to read or write data from or to the disk platters, and of course to
"park" the heads when the drive is shut down. It has nothing to do with how
the heads are supported when actually accessing the data on the platters.

Pete