Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!hsdndev!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: How to park a disc for shipment. Message-ID: <1990Nov30.173051.16390@alphalpha.com> Date: 30 Nov 90 17:30:51 GMT References: <841@bacchus.esa.oz.au> <7643@umd5.umd.edu> Organization: asi Lines: 18 In article <7643@umd5.umd.edu> gk06@umd5.umd.edu (David O. Dodge) writes: >I was looking over the old DN300 "troubleshooting manual" yesterday and it >states that when you are doing a complete shutdown, you use "SH" at the MD >level and listen for the drive to spin down. I'm guessing it's fairly safe >for shipping but I'm not sure if it actually "parks" the heads or not. On the 400's and maybe the 300s too this actually did do a full disk shutdown. I think it's a noop since then, but I still tend to do it for good luck. -kee -- Alphalpha Software, Inc. | motif-request@alphalpha.com nazgul@alphalpha.com |----------------------------------- 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | Proline BBS: 617/641-3722 I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.