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Re: [Q} Safety parking for ProDOS Hard Drive
- Subject: Re: [Q} Safety parking for ProDOS Hard Drive
- From: TheFlash@fast.net (Barry Allen)
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:07:28 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Comic Readers Inc.
- References: <9ghp0n$chb$1@imsinews.kornet.net> <9ghs06$ntv$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:9579
In article <9ghs06$ntv$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>, "Roger Johnstone"
<rojaws@mac.com> wrote:
I have never heard
> of a SCSI drive which did not have auto parking heads, even on old 20MB
> drives.
Yeah, they made 'em. My Applied Ingenuity InnerDrive 40 meg drive (which
works perfect to this day) has to have a program called IDPARK.16 in the
System Folder in order for the heads to park correctly. Without it, they
just spin down and stop where ever they happen to be. Works fine though.
Barry Allen