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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: generic PARK utilities, do they work?
Message-ID: <26042ca0.3513@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 19 Mar 90 00:49:36 GMT
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Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
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I have been wondering about this.  I have a number of park utilities.

The question is what it does when you have partitions.  Some of them will
say something like, "Drive C: head parked.  Drive D: head parked."
I know good and well that I only have one drive, and it has two partitions.
This does not inspire too much confidence.  What if I had three partitions,
and the third one was not a DOS paritition.  Would it just leave it parked
at the end of the second partition?

This whole issue is further clouded by the fact that many drives are auto-
parking.  But which drives?

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.