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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SafeEject and 6.0.4
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Date: 25 Oct 89 12:46:06 GMT
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In article <9989@pucc.Princeton.EDU> FTWILSON@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
>      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)

NoNoNoNoNo...  Please, SafeEject is for 800K drives!  Not the FDHDs!
FDHDs park the heads.  800K drives to not and will sometimes rip the
head off while trying to eject the disk, hence the need for SafeEject/
System 6.0.4.

Ken


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