Re: [Q} Safety parking for ProDOS Hard Drive

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Barry Allen wrote:

>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.

But, IIRC, the Applied Ingenuity drive is an IDE drive, not a SCSI.  Many
older IDE drives required software parking.

-michael

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