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From: garyb@iotek.UUCP (Gary Burrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Head Parking on Miniscribe 3650
Message-ID: <345@mars.iotek.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 14:22:38 GMT
Reply-To: garyb@iotek.UUCP (Gary R. Burrell)
Organization: IOTEK Inc
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	I have a Minscribe 3650 hard drive in my 8 MHz PC-XT at home.
My problem is that after a short period of time the heads appear to
park automatically, and the LED on the front changes to red.  The next
access to this drive takes a large amount of time as the heads appear
to do an alignment or something.  Is there any way to increase the
amount of time the drive must be idle before the heads park.
Currently they park if the drive has not been used for about 15
second, this is just too short a time.  A time like 2 mins would be
much better.  BTW this is running off a WD controller, but I'm unsure
which one.

	

				Gary 

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