ir230@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (john wavrik) (11/20/89)
If a disk is partitioned, to head parking utilities generally park on the last track of the disk, or the last track of the *partition*? Or is there no general rule? Someone mentioned results with a headparking utility that seemed not to recognize the full disk -- could this be because the disk is partitioned? Will parking the heads over a track do damage to the track? (Obviously DOS uses the last track in the DOS partition) -- John Wavrik, UCSD
kthompso@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM (Ken Thompson) (11/28/89)
Do park utilities generally park BOTH disks if one has two? -- Ken Thompson N0ITL NCR Corp. 3718 N. Rock Road Wichita,Ks. 67226 (316)636-8783 Ken.Thompson@wichita.ncr.com
LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) (11/30/89)
In article <427@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM>, kthompso@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM (Ken Thompson) writes: >Do park utilities generally park BOTH disks if one has two? > Having spent some time looking at these utilities recently, the answer seems to be 'maybe'. Some (including the TIMEPARK prog available from SIMTEL) explicitly state that they will park both drives if there are two. Others require you to give a drive number as an argument. Richard Stanton pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu