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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2 Amiga 3000 Questions (from a new Owner ;^))
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Date: 4 Jul 90 09:19:29 GMT
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kosma%human-torch@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma) writes:
>sorry, but regardless of lights flashing and disks being validated, the
>quantum hard drives (and many others, like my seagate st251) DO automatically
>park the head after a few seconds of disk inactivity.

They don't. The Quantum OEM manuals say nothing about interval parking.
They do, however, recalibrate themselves from time to time.
The Seagate ST251 is a MFM drive with no built-in intelligence. It can't
park itself (except when it's being switched off). You might, however,
own a controller with software that does things like this for you.

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