3b1 67meg drive, self-parking?

[Michael J. Farren]

In article <606 at sialis.mn.org> rjg at sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
>>Here's a question I keep forgetting to ask; is the 67meg
>>drive self parking?
>
>Whether it does or not, the ATT documentation states in more than one
>place, that you should boot up the diagnostics disk and use the park
>heads option whenever you are going to move a machine.

The 67 Meg drives (Miniscribe) have a self-parking feature.  Using the
diagnostics disk to park the heads is self-defeating.  As soon as you
power down, them heads is gonna park theyselves anyhow.  With a quite
audible "Thwack!", I might add!

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