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From: turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Hard Disk (Head Park?)
Message-ID: <605@imagen.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 12:47:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  9 12:47:50 1986
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> A distant friend of mine recently purchased the 20M Atari hard disk.  New to
what is a distant friend??? 
> the microcomputer world, he was told that he needed to run the head park 
> routine every night.  Is this on the level?  I told him it seemed to me that
> he should run it if he was going to be moving the system, but otherwise not.
> 
i think that falls into the same catagory as turning off the power
strip when you're done in addition to turning off the ST, namely it
could hurt any ...
> Also, a local dealer said VIP, PC/Intercomm, and some printer program (I for-
> get the name) would not run on the hard disk (??!!??).  Was the dealer
> referring to copy protection?  Surely the individual programs couldn't care
> less where they are stored and loaded from.
> 
i heard that there were problems with VIP amoungst others on a hard
disk but i believe most of the problems were solved by having the program
and any associated files in the top level directory because the
program was too stupid to look in the current directory, rather it
assumed that it was the only thing on the disk
> As usual, verbose comments are encouraged, though all are appreciated...
> 
as usual these are only wild (explicative deleted) guesses on my part
> 
> Jim Moore
> NCSC (except I'm at home now)
I'm on first myself...
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