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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

park

To park the read/write heads in a disk drive is to move them to a safe position whenever they are not being used to access the disk.

Related terms
card readerCD drivedisk drivehard drivehead crashread/write headread
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Hardware › storage
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