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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: 5 Jul 90 22:58:19 GMT
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plonka@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Plonka) writes:
>>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??
The ST296N is a SCSI drive with built-in controller, so it has some
intelligence and might do things like recalibrating. The ST251 is a
ST506 MFM drive.

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