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_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 Fri Oct 11 2002 - 17:16:01 BST