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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MiniScribe Parking when I don't want it to!
Keywords: I never asked my prep to park my hard drive!
Message-ID: <5089@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 19:28:58 GMT
References: <4951@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 35

In article <4951@garfield.MUN.EDU> joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson) writes:
>
>I have had some problems with my 2090 and my MiniScribe [3650], 
...
>As soon as I plugged in the new drive, I had an orange light come
>on it.

	I hope you didn't plug it in with the power on...  :-)

>  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.  

	If you say yes to "park" it will park the heads after 3 seconds,
not 6.  Either the drive is doing it itself (possible, I suppose),
or perhaps it's every 3 seconds, and you answered 'Y' to park??  Try
re-prepping if all else fails.  Note that some filesystem operations do
some writing a few seconds later, like delete.  This does not happen on reads.

>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. 

	No entry for dh0: is needed.  dh0: will be automatically created
according to the information you gave prep when you prepped the drive.
RES0: is ONLY used for prepping the drive.  Do not try to use it at
any other time.

-- 
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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup