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From: danno@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Secret Squirrel)
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Subject: Re: SafeEject and 6.0.4
Summary: We'll decipher this yet
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Date: 26 Oct 89 05:54:04 GMT
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A long time ago, Todd Wilson said:
>      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)
>
>Todd Wilson
>std disclaimer

And many people jumped on him. I came to his defense, and this is what I
got for my trouble:
>
>*sorry to do this net folks, but Danno is in need of a lesson in linguistics.

from James Osborne. Interestingly, I had decided to rethink my position
when I saw my own posting, even before James took exception to my
opinion.

After much deliberation, I have reached a transcendent understanding of
Todd's posting.

His statement,to use James' format, is as follows:
1. System 6.0.4 parks the heads ('moves the head to the 79th track')
2. This was the function of SafeEject.
Therefore, SafeEject should not be used with 6.0.4

The problem arises from his PS. James once again asserted what I was
denying: that the PS meant "SafeEject is for FDHDs only." People thought
Todd said this because the PS was, indeed, grossly misplaced. (That was
my objective, to clear up the misplacement.) The statement

"which, to my understanding, is the function of SafeEject"

in only incidental to the statement, and is not the subject of the PS.

To recap: Todd's point, from what I can reason, was that 6.0.4 will park
the heads, but only on FDHDs. His error, then, was in implying that
FDHDs did not do this until 6.0.4. I was told they did this from the
beginning.

But I shall not use my correctness as a basis for a personal flame
against Mr. Osborne. My original "flame" was a small jest, which I
thought would be obvious.


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