Re: [Q} Safety parking for ProDOS Hard Drive

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

Thanks Wayne. I'll roll them out sometime.

On 2 Jul 2001 00:42:57 -0700, Wayne Stewart wrote:

> Stephen Shaw wrote
>> Roger what about the SCSI ST225 (Seagate) I have six I rescued from the
>> dumpster about 5 years ago still in their antistatic bags. I've always been
a
>> bit leery of trying them.
>
> One of the HD specs sites seems to list them as non Auto-head parking but
> I'm doubting the correctness of that. The Apple SC20 used that drive and I
> believe Apple would have provided a head parking program if needed. I have
> 4 of them and I'd guess the heads have never been manually parked.
>
> Actually mine are in the closet now. I wouldn't hesitate to use one but
> they are slow. I've replaced mine with 3.5" mechanisms which are faster and
> don't have so much latency.
>
> 	Wayne

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