1.2 MB PC AT Drives: Loading the heads on the media

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From: Philip M. Burton
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1987 08:20

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I would like to be able to set a jumper on the 1.2 MB drive in my gen-u-wine
IBM PC AT so that the heads load onto the media whenever I "close the drive"
door.  If I could do this, I would get much quieter operation, eliminating
the noisy click-click as I select/read/unselect the drive.  (I thought I
got away from that when I stopped using a system with 8" floppies.)

My Panasonic, nee' Shugart, SA 455, 360 KB drive works exactly as I describe
it above, and it is much quieter in operation.  Any suggestions?

Please post to the net, but only if you have hard information.  Please post
to comp.sys.ibm.pc.  In the interests of keeping net traffic down, please,
please don't post any of those "I dunno either, but I wanna know" messages.

Thanks in advance,
Phil Burton
Xerox Corp

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Subject: 1.2 MB PC AT Drives: Loading the heads on the media
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