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From: vanleeuw@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (James Van Leeuwen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: To Park or not to Park ....
Keywords: Hard Drives help me please
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.032143.2024@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 90 03:21:43 GMT
References: <2097@wheaton.UUCP> <10764@chaph.usc.edu>
Reply-To: vanleeuw@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (James Van Leeuwen)
Organization: The University of Dayton Computer Science Department, Dayton, Ohio
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In article <10764@chaph.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
>
>	I have a Quantum Pro 80meg drive that autoparks, so I haven't had to 
>worry about this problem too much, but I was curious to know if others have 
>had this problem:  When using the makepark program that came with my ICD host
>adapter, I use the resulting park program on the Quantum:  The result is an 
>alarming sound - the apparent slowing down of the Drive with some other nasty
>sounds.  
>...stuff deleted...
Mike,

Well, doing that wasn't probably wasn't the smartest thing you could do.  
Auto-parking mechanisms, regardless of their manufacturer, do not respond well
to forced parking.  Where I work, that is one of the ways that we have seen
that have a shot of crashing the mechinism.  We even saw one once that
had the head drug across the media when parking was forced.  My advise,
don't do it again unless your hard drive is meaningless to you.  

Jim
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