Info-IBMPC@USC-ISIB.ARPA (10/26/84)
From: Info-IBMPC Digest <Info-IBMPC@USC-ISIB.ARPA> Date: 25 Oct 1984 15:32:48-EDT From: mlip@NADC (Michael Lipczynski) To: info-ibmpc@usc-isib Subject: Transporting an XT Does anyone have any advice on precautions to be taken in transporting an IBM PC/XT? I seem to recall that one should make sure that the fixed disk heads are retracted. If this is true, how does one do this (and the inverse)? Are there additional precautions other than the obvious? -------
jabusch@uiucdcsb.UUCP (10/29/84)
IBM supplies a diagnostic diskette with the PC. This diskette
has an option that you can invoke, which is described in the Guide
to Operations under the subject heading 'relocation'.
This should take care of both floppies and hard disks. Also,
it would be a good idea to re-insert the cardboard that originally came
with the floppy drive. It is meant merely to keep the heads from
flopping around against each other in transit.
John Jabusch
Student
University of Illinois