Parking heads on MFM hard drive

jpero at sympatico.ca jpero at sympatico.ca
Sat Mar 12 17:35:26 CST 2005


> 
> How does one park the heads on an MFM hard drive when there's no park
> command available?  I don't suppose the answer is to either create one or
> copy one to the hard drive? :)
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival

Manually parked by excuting a small program via floppy disk or 
copied to the hard drive.  Very often supplied by IBM years ago and 
now you should able to find them on download sites.

If you find one that has ASCII version that looks like big red switch 
flicked down from ON position, that's it.

Also you could carefully park a HD by hand but that's risky.

Cheers,

Wizard 


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