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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b1 67meg drive, self-parking?
Message-ID: <985@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 88 05:16:52 GMT
References: <2009@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <606@sialis.mn.org>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
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In article <606@sialis.mn.org> rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
>>Here's a question I keep forgetting to ask; is the 67meg
>>drive self parking?
>
>Whether it does or not, the ATT documentation states in more than one
>place, that you should boot up the diagnostics disk and use the park
>heads option whenever you are going to move a machine.

The 67 Meg drives (Miniscribe) have a self-parking feature.  Using the
diagnostics disk to park the heads is self-defeating.  As soon as you
power down, them heads is gonna park theyselves anyhow.  With a quite
audible "Thwack!", I might add!

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