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Subject: Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up
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Bodo Eggert wrote:

>Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de> wrote:
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>>Well, sure, it's not a notebook HDD, but maybe it's possible
>>to give headpark a more generic way to get the heads parked?
>>    
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>I remember my old MFM HDD, which had a Landing Zone stored in the BIOS to
>which the park command would seek. Maybe you could do something similar
>and park the head on the last cylinder if the other options fail.
>  
>
This makes me wonder... If you replace the internal HD with a non IBM or 
IBM supported Hard Drive, will it still park the head and will it 
support all the stuff?

.Alejandro