Ant wrote

Users learned how to bend things back
into place after too many head bangings.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

Oh, for the good old days !

You're free to use them again any time you like.

IIRC, you had to park the drives with software like on
3.5" floppy disk(ette)s if the drives were being moved.

Nope, you've mangled that utterly. There was
no need to do that with 3.5" floppy drives.

I know I did this on my IBM PS/2
model 30 286 10 Mhz desktop PC!

You got the story completely scrambled.

It was possible to park the heads with the early
hard drives that didn’t do anything special
when powered down and saw the heads land
on the platters when they stopped rotating.