CompuServe Messages

Don, Well, it is if you select autopark as an option. It happens to be the opportune time to park the drive, as that's when the buffers are flushed. If you use TDebug on hddisk.device, you can actually see this happening. The disk activity ceases, there is a pause, and then you get an UPDATE packet. THe people that wrote the driver just decided to use that as a good time to park. The flash will happen whether the drive parks or not. Andy… if you're reading this, could you tell me if there's an entry in the driver for 'park'? I would really like to write a couple of programs to park the drive. One woul dpark it every 30 seconds or so, and the other would park it on demand. Speaking of that, any idea when the driver docs will be made available? i am dying to write a backup program for SCSI quarter inch tape cartridges, and need the 'pass the SCSI commands directly' methodology. I could do it from the hardware specs in the tech ref manual, but prefer to 'keep it legal'. -larry