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From: FTWILSON@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Frederick Todd Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SafeEject and 6.0.4
Message-ID: <9990@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 25 Oct 89 02:22:29 GMT
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In article <9989@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, FTWILSON@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Frederick Todd Wilson) writes:

>In article <16315@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
>>
>>On an aside, can someone from Apple confirm that the floppy drive
>>head-parking before eject fix has been included in 6.0.4?  If not,
>>I'll stick with SafeEject for now.
>>
>      It would appear that you should not use SafeEject with 6.0.4.
>System 6.0.4 DOES move the head to the 79th (I think) track before
>ejection of the disk, which, as I understand it, is the function of
>SafeEject. (PS this is for FDHDs ONLY)
>
Sorry, I just tried to find the source of this info and I can't. This
info may or may not be correct. Since I posted it, I have read
Chuq Von Rospach's posting and defer to it.

Todd Wilson
These are my opinions and not those of Prineton University or Apple
Computer.