Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Warm Reboot and Hard Disk Noise
Message-ID: <3734@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 15:09:24 GMT
References: <8804300422.AA18746@decwrl.dec.com> <12083@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <3718@cbmvax.UUCP> <927@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <927@sandino.quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>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

Except that track 0 is not the usual place to park heads.
Usually, when you park them, you try to avoid having them
right over critical data.

A park program is pretty easy...but I wouldn't advise parking
at track 0.

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