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From: lshaw@walt.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw)
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Subject: Re: 2 Amiga 3000 Questions (from a new Owner ;^))
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Date: 3 Jul 90 07:22:37 GMT
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In article <1065@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland) writes:
>
>	I just got my A3000 Saturday and I have 2 questions of
>immediate concern.  First, I had to go through a dealer 2 hours
>away from me, and halfway home I realized that after the dealer
>had finished checking out my system to see if it worked (see below
>for a small detail), he did NOT do anything to park the HD.  When

Ah, but what you don't know (and they probably should have mentioned in the
manual -- of course, this is a Commodore manual, keep in mind) is that you
don't have to worry about parking your hard drive.  All A3000's come with
a quantum hard drive, and quantum hard drives are auto-parking.  (Trust me,
I have a 40-meg, probably the exact same drive that's in your machine.) 
In other words, quantum drives are done _so_ right, you sometimes think 
there's something wrong.  

After you have not used the disk for a period of 5 or 10 seconds, the
drive will decide to park itself.  Thus, you don't have to do it yourself.
Sometimes you'll see the little light flash when it does this.

Corollary:  If you reboot or power off within a few seconds of accessing the
disk, the head may not have had a chance to park, and bad things can happen.
Usually, you can appease the "Volume dh0: not validated" requestor by hitting
[retry] several times (be persistent).  If this happens, you'll see the hard
disk moving like you never thought it could, trying to figure out life.  The 
light will be on solid for a good 20 seconds or more.  Once it's done,
everything should be back to normal.

>Scott Sutherland
>sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu


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