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From: erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Warm Reboot and Hard Disk Noise
Message-ID: <12703@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 7 May 88 21:37:24 GMT
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In article <1080@utflis.UUCP> wayne@flis.toronto.edu.UUCP (Wayne Young) writes:
>In article <3718@cbmvax.UUCP>, hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis) writes:
>> 	So, the when the system boots, and the head is not over track
>> zero, it backs the head up ONE track and checks again.

>If the drive forgets which track it's over on a warm boot and consequently
>has to back up a track at a time to find track 0, then why doesn't it do
>the same thing on power up?  I own a MiniScribe too, and I notice that when
>I power the sucker on, it makes *one* seek, and there is no buzzsaw sound.
>Only on a warm boot does it make the buzzsaw sound.

>What now?


Well, _my_ drive claims in the documentation to PARK on power off (Seagate
ST-225)  It makes sense that if the drive parks on power off, that the drive
would know where it put the heads.  On a warm start, the heads could be
anywhere.


>wayne

>       {uunet,utzoo,decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!utcsri!utflis!wayne 






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