Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!erd 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 References: <8804300422.AA18746@decwrl.dec.com> <12083@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <3718@cbmvax.UUCP> <1080@utflis.UUCP> Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 34 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 -- Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in | ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. This space for rent | ## | ###### "You get it, you're closer."