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From: bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Parking Hard Drives
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Date: 10 Oct 89 14:12:34 GMT
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Does anyone have the source code to a park program?
I'd really like to write a resident parker that
will park the disk every 5 minutes, say.  Kinda
like a screen blanker.
   Now here's a techy question.  I've used both
the Microbotics Stardrive and the Supra controllers.
The Supra parker parks the heads and deactivates the
drive i.e. stops the disks while the Stardrive just
parks the heads.  Is there any benefit to stopping the
disks?

					- Bear