Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!sunybcs!twomey From: twomey@sunybcs.uucp (Bill Twomey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Parking the disk heads on a 3B1 -- why the diagnostics diskette? Message-ID: <4287@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 08:36:39 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.4287 Posted: Tue Jul 28 08:36:39 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 05:42:29 EDT References: <915@woton.UUCP> Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP Reply-To: twomey@gort.UUCP (Bill Twomey) Distribution: world Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 19 Keywords: hard disk pain In article <915@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) writes: >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 ... >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.") Is there any need to make the parking a part of the shutdown procedure? I would be quite happy if I could park the disk heads without going through a shutdown. Alas, have no idea how to begin to park the heads. What does "dismount -s" do? -Bill twomey@gort.cs.Buffalo.EDU Usenet: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!twomey Bitnet: twomey@sunybcs CSnet: twomey%buffalo.csnet@csnet-relay