Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!pds
From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Warm Reboot and Hard Disk Noise
Message-ID: <927@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 88 20:20:11 GMT
References: <8804300422.AA18746@decwrl.dec.com> <12083@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <3718@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: Then why not put head on track 0 at shutdown or reboot time?

In article <3718@cbmvax.UUCP>, hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis) writes:
> 	So, the when the system boots, and the head is not over track
> zero, it backs the head up ONE track and checks again.

Thanks for this explanation.  It is all clear now.  But one question:
wouldn't sending the head to track 0 BEFORE booting or shutting down
cure this problem?  So why not fix the old three-finger-nerve-pinch
reboot code to seek to track 0 before actually rebooting?  Surely a
short program could be run (manually) before powering down?
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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