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From: 6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Darryl "NOT Ug" Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Is head parking now automatic?
Keywords: jasmine, head parking, hard disk
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Date: 5 Jun 91 12:15:32 GMT
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a bunch of people wrote to this subject asking whether the shutdown
option under the special menu actually parked hard disks, specifically
old hard disks, or rather, first generation ("wow--20 megs for $1500")
hard disks...

anyways...i dug up an old (? 1988) cdev by Bruce Tomlin that seems to
do what you ask (park a "classic" hd upon shutdown).  No, i don't know
whether it's sys 7.0 compatible.  i've been lazy/wary about installing
such a "revolutionary" new os, so i'm waiting until i see how much my
friends' computers crash. :}

i think i got it--SCSI parker, by the way--from sumex-aim....

happy parking....

--Darryl

p.s.--click on his head to get out of the help screen...