12 Mar
2005
12 Mar
'05
8:19 p.m.
How does one park the heads on an MFM hard drive when there's no park
command available? I don't suppose the answer is to either create one or
copy one to the hard drive? :)
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12 Mar
12 Mar
3:35 p.m.
How does one park the heads on an MFM hard drive when there's no park
command available? I don't suppose the answer is to either create one or
copy one to the hard drive? :)
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
Manually parked by excuting a small program via floppy disk or
copied to the hard drive. Very often supplied by IBM years ago and
now you should able to find them on download sites.
If you find one that has ASCII version that looks like big red switch
flicked down from ON position, that's it.
Also you could carefully park a HD by hand but that's risky.
Cheers,
Wizard
13 Mar
13 Mar
9:22 a.m.
jpero at sympatico.ca wrote:
If you find one that has ASCII version that looks like
big red switch
flicked down from ON position, that's it.
Early versions of Spinrite also come with PARK.COM, which just moves the heads
to their last cylinder.
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9:30 p.m.
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:22:24 -0600, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
jpero at sympatico.ca wrote:
Early versions of Spinrite also come with PARK.COM, which just moves the heads
to their last cylinder.
park.com, yeah I remember that.
Once you run it, it gives a rtather reassuring "ker-KLUNK"... :-)
/wai-sun
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