MFM hard disk parking

From: Peter Joules <peter_at_joules.org>
Date: Tue Apr 3 08:33:06 2001

This brings to mind one of the old practical jokes, which can no longer be
used on modern systems...

Whilst some of the park routines used to allow ESC to be pressed to contiue
using the drive, un parking it, others simply said 'Drive heads are parked -
you may now power down' and halted the system. This led to the possibility
of some evil soul ;-) putting PARK as the last statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT.

The other one which comes to mind is changing the DOS prompt to something
like 'FATAL Parity error - Contact support', many users would make no
attempt to do anything else with the system before calling for help ;-)

--
Regards
Pete
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Hellige
> Sent: 02 April 2001 23:07
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: MFM hard disk parking
>
>
> 	Could someone please email me the MS-DOS utility SHIP.COM or
> PARK.COM (it differed in name depending on who's OEM DOS it was).  I
> need to park a MFM hard disk prior to shipment.  Thanks and take care.
>
> 	Jeff
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