MFM hard disk parking

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Mon Apr 2 20:11:52 2001

>Depending upon how old you HD is, park might be entirely unnecessary.
>Also depending upon the machine. One of my machines parked the heads
>(by interrupt generated by the power switch) on every power down. I

        The drive is a Tandon TM-501 or 502 in a TRS-80 Model 2000
running DOS 2.00. I know neither the machine itself or the drive
automatically parks on shutdown or after a timeout and Tandy's OEM
version of DOS didn't include the utility either. My personal
preference in the machine is the ST-225, but the Tandon in this one
is still going strong as it only saw light use.

        Jeff
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