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- PARK_HD.ACC by Dick Lee
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- April 2, 1989
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- PARK_HD.ACC is my first attempt at programming the hard disk
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- controller (HDC) in Pascal. The program was written with OSS
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- Personal Pascal. I guess I should mention that portions of
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- PARK_HD.ACC, mainly the library routines, are copyrighted by OSS
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- and CCD. This program has been placed into the public domain as
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- FREEWARE.
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- I wrote this program as a result of being tired of searching
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- for the head parking program (that came with the hard disk),
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- closing any windows displaying the directory of a hard disk
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- partition, and then running the parking program every time I
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- turned off my hard disk.
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- This accessory will park your hard disk's head in it's
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- shipping position. As with other parking programs, once you have
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- parked the head, you SHOULD NOT access any partition of the hard
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- disk... you'll hear weird noises and see some strange garbage on
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- your window. After PARK_HD.ACC has been selected, the head will
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- be parked, and a dialog box will appear telling you so. The LED
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- on the hard disk WILL STAY LIT (at least on my SH204), as a
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- reminder that the hard disk head has been parked. DON'T WORRY,
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- your hard disk isn't doing anything. You can now turn your hard
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- disk off. You should only need to execute this accessory once
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- per session. If you forgot something and wish to access the hard
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- disk again, you should first turn off the hard disk and then turn
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- it back on again; this will move the head back out.
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- I have only tested this program using one SH204 hard disk;
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- however, it should work with multiple hard disks. If you have
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- any questions or any suggestions, please send me a message; my
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- Compuserve PPN is [72717,1603].
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- Dick.
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