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From: plonka@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Plonka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2 Amiga 3000 Questions (from a new Owner ;^))
Message-ID: <1994@carroll1.cc.edu>
Date: 4 Jul 90 20:23:55 GMT
References: <23543@snow-white.udel.EDU> <2953@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Reply-To: plonka@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Plonka)
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI
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In article <2953@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes:
>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.

Then what is my ST296N with GVP SCSI+8 doing when it flickers it's little
green light after I leave it alone for a couple minutes? I have no idea.
Is the GVP card doing this?

They have no built-in intelligence but they recalibrate themselves from time
to time??

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Dave

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