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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: (Safe hard disk shutdown)
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Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 12:42:56 EST
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In article <8711092054.AA23756@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	I figure all you have to do is (A) ACTION_INHIBIT to the DOS device
>driver handling the harddisk, and (B) open the trackdisk.device for the
>hard disk and retract the heads by seeking to 0 or whatever.

You probably also want to issue a CMD_FLUSH command to the trackdisk.device
driver for the hard disk, just in case it is doing something "clever".  Maybe
DOS does this for you?



Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming