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From: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 2 Amiga 3000 Questions (from a new Owner ;^))
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Date: 3 Jul 90 12:45:17 GMT
References: <1065@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu>
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In article <1065@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland) writes:
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>	I just got my A3000 Saturday and I have 2 questions of
>in WB2.0 or AmigaDOS 2.0, why NOT?  IF HD's are to become a standard
>part of the Amiga computer system, then PARK should be a command in
>the C directory OR added as a utility (like choosing a printer).
>

The hard drives are auto-park. Everytime you power down, or the drive isn't
running it parks itself. No need for SW to do this.

>	Second question.  When the dealer turned on my system, I noticed
>that the 1950 multisync monitor "flickered" or "jumped" a little twice
>during startup.  The whold screen deforms for ~.5 seconds once before 
>and once after the Loading WB 2.X (or something like that) message 
>appears.  The dealer said that this was natural, but it doesn't look
>very natural to me.  It does NOT seem to affect the operation at all.
>Any ideas as to what causes this and if it is normal??  I know my
>description is a bit vague, but it is hard to describe this.
>
>

It is normal for the screen to jump like that. It is my understanding that 
since no signal is being sent by the computer initially, it takes a second
for the monitor to recieve a signal and sync up to that external signal. Most
any computer screen will jump as the machine is powering up.

>
>Scott Sutherland
>sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu

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