LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) (11/18/89)
As an addendum to my last message, I tried one head parking program (not a timed one), which happily told me that my heads were parked at track 614. This is great, except my drive has around 820 tracks. The number 614 is indeed what is shown by the BIOS table entry. Does anybody have a recommendation for a program that will automatically park the heads in a SAFE place after a certain time, tha will cope with a partitioned disk and a number of tracks that differs from that shown in the BIOS table. Thanks Richard Stanton pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu
mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord) (11/21/89)
In article <5853@lindy.Stanford.EDU> LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes: >As an addendum to my last message, I tried one head parking program >(not a timed one), which happily told me that my heads were parked >at track 614. This is great, except my drive has around 820 tracks. >The number 614 is indeed what is shown by the BIOS table entry. > >Does anybody have a recommendation for a program that will >automatically park the heads in a SAFE place after a certain time, >tha will cope with a partitioned disk and a number of tracks that >differs from that shown in the BIOS table. I have a modified version of TIMEPRK which will correctly park the heads of up to two physical hard drives on any machine with an AT (or better) BIOS. Does not work on XT's, though. It uses an AT BIOS call to get the real parking tracks from the disk info. The heads are parked either: 1) immediately if no parameters given, or 2) after a specified number of minutes. EMAIL me with your address if you would like a copy. -Mark -- +-------------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Mark S. Lord | Hey, It's only MY opinion. | | utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!mlord%bmers58 | Feel free to have your own.| +-------------------------------------+----------------------------+
ppa@hpldola.HP.COM (Paul P. Austgen) (11/27/89)
Disk Technician Advanced will allow parking on any physical cylinder. I don 't know about the others.