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From: lampi@polari.UUCP (Michael Lampi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How to park a disc for shipment.
Summary: Automagic with 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 inch drives
Keywords: disc disk park maxtor
Message-ID: <2836@polari.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 90 05:21:32 GMT
References: <841@bacchus.esa.oz.au>
Organization: MDL Corporation (206) 643-7333
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In article <841@bacchus.esa.oz.au> don@bacchus.esa.oz () writes:
>Could someone advise if there is a procedure for parking a disc
>for shipping, other than "shut".

Newer disk drives automagically park their heads upon power removal, and lock
their heads in the landing zone (typically with a solenoid). Only the older
8 inch and 14 inch winchesters (as on the DN300 and DN-400 and DN-600) needed
to use the Mnemonic Debugger SH command to shut down the disks. These systems
also have a manual actuator lock (not on the newer DN300 disk drives, tho).

>P.S.	If someone could tell me the type of controller Apollo
>	would have shipped (in March '89) with a DN3010 with a
>	Maxtor EXT-3480 series 3 disc drive, I'd be greatly grateful.
>

Probably an OMTI 8610 or 8621 controller.

Michael Lampi
MDL Corporation
(206) 643-7333
(206) 643-5080 FAX