burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton) (03/10/87)
I would like to be able to set a jumper on the 1.2 MB drive in my gen-u-wine IBM PC AT so that the heads load onto the media whenever I "close the drive" door. If I could do this, I would get much quieter operation, eliminating the noisy click-click as I select/read/unselect the drive. (I thought I got away from that when I stopped using a system with 8" floppies.) My Panasonic, nee' Shugart, SA 455, 360 KB drive works exactly as I describe it above, and it is much quieter in operation. Any suggestions? Please post to the net, but only if you have hard information. Please post to comp.sys.ibm.pc. In the interests of keeping net traffic down, please, please don't post any of those "I dunno either, but I wanna know" messages. Thanks in advance, Phil Burton Xerox Corp
davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (03/11/87)
Start of "hard info":
Toshiba drives don't make that clunk (at least the four I use
regularly in diferent machines don't).
Start of opinion:
It looks as if the Toshiba loads the heads when the door is closed.
This is no problem if your disk has enough power to start the disk
with the heads down.
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