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From: alawlor@dit.ie (Aengus Lawlor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: generic PARK utilities, do they work?
Message-ID: <7385.25fea5ab@dit.ie>
Date: 14 Mar 90 20:12:27 GMT
Organization: Dublin Institute of Technology
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I have a number of utilities that claim to "park" the heads on my hard disk.
Can a generic utility work, or should it be written specifically for the drive
in question?
If my prompt is set to $p$g ( ie it shows my path) do my heads get "unparked"
immediately after they have been parked, if DOS reads the current path to
display it (this seems to happen after every command on a floppy).
I had the utility that came with my hard disk on my path, but when my machine
came back from a service today, it had been "updated". The old utility
deliberately went into an endless loop, so you had to reset to get the machine
back, but the new one "parks" and returns me to my prompt. Does this work?

Thanks.
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Aengus Lawlor    Dept of Computer Science.           Time flies like an arrow,
ALAWLOR@DIT.IE   Dublin Institute of Technology.     Fruit-flies like a banana
                 Kevin Street. Dublin 8. Ireland.