Good catch! I had completely forgotten about that one.<p>For those completely oblivious to this: This was actually not about getting data written to disk, but to physically protect the drive from its own mechanical construction. The &quot;park&quot; command would cause the harddrive to move its magnetic read and write-heads away from the internal platters, so that when it was powered down and the disks stopped spinning, the platters would not be damaged or experience needless tear and wear.<p>Yeah, I&#x27;m glad we no longer have to do that exercise.