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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A Few Technical Questions
Keywords: help, mac, sofa
Message-ID: <18880@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 88 19:56:13 GMT
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In article <3f185fcb.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu> mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) writes:
>
>  What's happening here is that when you shut down, if you're not parking
>the heads, it's at least moving them closer to the boot blocks.  If you just
>restart, it leaves the heads where they wre when you restarted, so it has to
>seek all over the platters for the boot blocks.  And considering the speed of

This is not true.  It has nothing to do with head position.

If you don't use the Finder ShutDown command, the File Manager does some
basic checks on the disk the next time it is mounted.  If you do use
ShutDown, then the File Manager sets a flag on the disk indicating that it
was shut down normally.

Macsbug 6.0 has the RS command that attempts to do a Restart. 

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