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Booting Hard Disks

    04-Feb-88 00:51:42
Sb: #107273-Booting Hard Disks
Fm: John Draper 76703,4322
To: Richard Rae/SYSOP 76703,4253
Rick, Could have sworn i told you the way around that "power down drive" thing. It's a workaround for now, but not overly taxing… Put a copy of PARK on a floppy, as well as in the C: directory of the HD. PARK the drive before powering down, and when you power it up, type (before _ANYTHING_ else), DF0:PARK (path it anywhere you put the PARK command except the HD). Then just 'do your thing'. It will clear out the messed up status of the controller that results from powering it down. Regards, Larry.