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From: joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MiniScribe Parking when I don't want it to!
Keywords: I never asked my prep to park my hard drive!
Message-ID: <4951@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Date: 23 Oct 88 18:09:55 GMT
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
Lines: 45


Hi,

I have had some problems with my 2090 and my MiniScribe [3650], 
I finally had the drive replaced with a new MiniScribe [3650] and
it looks to be working now.  (It has not had an error for 48
hours!  That breaks the 24 hour best that my old MiniScribe had.) 


As soon as I plugged in the new drive, I had an orange light come
on it.  I then perped it and said no to the parking the head
option. Then I went through with a normal prep, and now every 6
seconds when the drive is not used I get this orange light again. 
I personally think that my heads are parked while the light is
orange, as if i try to read/write to the hard drive while the
light is orange it will make some loud sounds before doing my
task.  

Can someone please tell me how I can stop my heads from being
parked.  I am quite sure I did not pick parking the heads in the
prep so I need a different way.

P.S. I am not sure about how my mountlist should look.  My local
store knows nothing about hard drives on Amigas.  Do I need to
have a mount for "DH0:".  I only have one for "RES0:" now. 


This is a copy of my mountlist:


/* ST-506 hard disk drives are units 1 and 2 */
res0:      Device = hddisk.device
           Unit   = 1
           Flags  = 0
           Surfaces  = 6
           BlocksPerTrack = 17
           Reserved = 2
           Interleave = 0
           LowCyl = 0 ;  HighCyl = 1
           Buffers = 1
           BufMemType = 0

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