Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!im4u!woton!riddle From: riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Parking the disk heads on a 3B1 -- why the diagnostics diskette? Message-ID: <915@woton.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 17:36:40 EDT Article-I.D.: woton.915 Posted: Mon Jul 27 17:36:40 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 02:26:12 EDT Distribution: world Organization: Shriners Burns Institute, Galveston Lines: 14 Keywords: hard disk pain Full-Shutdown: "Bob" Is there a good reason why it should be necessary to load the diagnostics diskette in order to park the hard disk heads on a UNIX PC? That's the only way that AT&T provides, but wouldn't it have made much more sense to do it automatically as part of the normal shutdown process? We have about twenty 3B1s here and it is a real pain to haul around a diagnostics floppy every time one of our users wants to rearrange her/his office. If there *aren't* any good reasons why it couldn't be done without the diagnostics diskette, are there any 3B1 hackers out there who feel up to the job of patching the shutdown code to do it? --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Shriners Burns Institute. --- riddle@woton.UUCP {ihnp4,harvard,seismo}!ut-sally!im4u!woton!n!n am