Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!emory!wuarchive!uunet!sjsca4!poffen
From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Danger of not parking HD?
Keywords: Error reading drive c: (Abort, Retry, Self-Destruct)?
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.205716.12497@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 20:57:16 GMT
References: <795@ra.MsState.Edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
Lines: 20

In article <795@ra.MsState.Edu> pam1@ra.MsState.Edu (Phillip A. McReynolds) writes:
>After recently running optimize for QEMM, I found that I could not park my
>hard drive heads (ST238R drive with ST11 controller) since something no
>longer recognized my controller type.
>
>Is there much serious danger in leaving my heads unparked?
>
>What is the reason for this monkey-business anyway?  Is there a way around 
>this problem (without giving up the convenient ability to load TSR's into
>high memory)?
>

When I ran optimize in QEMM, it hung up my system on the third pass, and
trashed part of my CMOS setting. I had to re-program my CMOS to get things
working.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
Schlumberger Technologies       UUCP:   {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen
1601 Technology Drive		CIS:	72401,276
San Jose, Ca. 95110             (408)437-5254