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
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Maslin [mailto:donm_at_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
> 0/0
Received on Thu Oct 10 2002 - 11:32:01 BST