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- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Message-ID: <8fHtgZ_00iUzI2la0u@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:42:29 -0500
- From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Norton futilities for data recovery
- Approved: just another silly approved line
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan9.185743.10805@ncsu.edu>
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- Excerpts from netnews.alt.hackers: 9-Jan-93 Re: Norton futilities for
- d.. by Mike Marcelais@eos.ncsu.
- > Well, try poking around in the controler for the circut that does the
- > auto-parking and disable it. Probably will void the warranty though.
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- Some drives do it all manually also. The R40 (and I think R44) drives
- that used to come with the low-end IBM RT's just have a catch the holds
- the heads on the inner edge of the platters. If you cut that catch
- (which is accessible from the outside of the drive, it is underneath the
- drive controller) the drive heads just wouldn't ever park (so you would
- have to use a program like diskmon from NU6 to park the heads).
-
- A CDC Wren II (i think this is the drive type, it is an old 70 meg MFM
- drive) that I have has a similar problem, in that the heads won't unpark
- when you boot it up. Ended up having to replace it with a new drive...
- Too bad they didn't just have an external catch, or I could have done a
- similar hack.
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- alex
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