11 Oct
2002
11 Oct
'02
5:16 p.m.
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Feldman, Robert wrote:
I seem to remember that self-parking heads generally
were not available on
the 10MB drives of Kaypro 10 vintage, so I did a little Googling and came up
with the following
(http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n12/8_The_Kaypro_10_more_than_.php
) from CREATIVE COMPUTING VOL. 9, NO. 12 / DECEMBER 1983:
"A very important command is included in the Kaypro 10 system software.
SAFETY moves the read/write heads on the hard disk to the safe landing zone
on the disk. This must be done before turning the power off or the surface
of the hard disk may be damaged. The SAFETY command is invoked from the
command mode in CP/M."
Bob
You are correct. My recollection was colored by a number of years
experience with the TurboROM which does the automatic parking that
I spoke to.
- don
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Maslin [mailto:donm@cts.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:37 PM
To: classiccmp
Subject: Re: Park heads when moving Kaypro 10?
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Glen Goodwin wrote:
Hi --
Thanks to Don Maslin I'll soon have a set of reload diskettes for my
Kaypro
10, and I plan to bring it from home to my shop
to do the reload.
Is there a "park" or "ship" command I need to run before transporting
the
unit, so as not to damage the hard drive?
IIRC, it is built into the operating system and when the HD LED goes
out, the heads have been parked.
- don
TIA --
Glen
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