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From: twomey@sunybcs.uucp (Bill Twomey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Parking the disk heads on a 3B1 -- why the diagnostics diskette?
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Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 08:36:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 28 08:36:39 1987
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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
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