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Re: [Q} Safety parking for ProDOS Hard Drive
- Subject: Re: [Q} Safety parking for ProDOS Hard Drive
- From: "Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 07:47:32 -0400
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
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"Charles Stephens" <charles_stephens@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9gk6k8$m2i$1@finch.mathcs.emory.edu...
> "Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:9gis66$t17$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net...
> >
> > On this subject, I'm mildly amused that the Focus will allow you to
> manually
> > park the head and, as the manual states, park the heads automatically
> during
> > shutdown if FocusDriver is loaded. Notebook IDE drives, to the best of
my
> > knowledge, are recent enough that I'd place good money that every single
> one
> > of them is auto-parking. *shrug*
>
> Head parking is sometimes overloaded to mean 'eject' for removable media.
I kinda doubt anyone's gotten removable media to work with a 2.5" internal
IDE hardcard. ;)
Rodney