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From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b1 67meg drive, self-parking?
Message-ID: <409@icus.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 88 20:55:45 GMT
References: <2009@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
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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.  ?

According to the 3.51 OS Technical Tips notes (separate sheets that came
with the AT&T UNIX pc Owner's Manual) page 5 states:

4.  Page 3-95.  The disk heads on the model 3B1 do note need to be parked
    using the Diagnostic Disk.  These disk heads are parked automatically
    when the shutdown command is used.  Disk heads on model 7300 must be
    parked with the Diagnostic disk as described on page 3-95 of this manual.

Therefore, the /etc/shutdown message is bogus on 3B1's and the hard disks
are self-parking.

-Lenny
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