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From: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b1 67meg drive, self-parking?
Summary: Actually, Miniscribe 6085s self-park when power is removed
Message-ID: <1321@ddsw1.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 88 17:13:34 GMT
References: <2009@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <409@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
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In article <409@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>In article <2009@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu 
>(Richard Foulk) writes:
>|>Here's a question I keep forgetting to ask; is the 67meg
>|>drive self parking?  I vaguely recall seeing a brochure
>|>for the Miniscribe drives that seemed to say something
>|>to that effect.  ?

ALL Miniscribe 6xxx series drives self-park when the power is removed.  The
actuator is retracted and locked on the loss of power.

In other words, if you've a Miniscribe full-height drive, it auto-parks when
you turn off the power.  The OS has nothing to do with it.  AT&T's
contention that the 'shutdown' command does this is incorrect, at least for
the larger disks...

This is also true for Seagate full-height 4xxx series drives, as well as the
ST251's.  It is *not* true for most garden-variety stepper-motor small
drives (ex: ST225, etc).  These need to be parked.

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