Or are you asking me to test spindown with parkdisk just to see if you can use it? Is the one in FDAPM not equivalent?
I could do tests, but only on a limited number of machines...
Alain
Eric Auer escreveu:
Hi, at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/parkdisk.zip you can find a small tool which tries various int 13 calls to spin down your first two harddisks. No problem if you have only one disk...
Please report if this could spin down your disk (instead of only parking it) - you notice that by listening to disk noises and because the first disk access after the test will take longer if the spin down actually worked (because spinning up takes time).
In particular, I am interested in reports from people with SCSI disks! Current FDAPM uses direct access to the IDE controller to spin down IDE disks, but it would be better to find something which uses the BIOS and which works even for SCSI.
The tool also contains a second test: If you press ESC instead of ENTER at the first confirmation prompt, then the tool will tell you if int 4f SCSI / ATASPI interfaces are supported on your system.
If most testers report that none of the tested methods works and that int 4f is not supported either, they I would have to conclude that you need to load DOS SCSIMGR$ drivers to be able to do a SCSI spindown (by sending the START/STOP disk packet command). A BIOS-only method would be better - normal disk access is already provided by SCSI BIOS, so the DOS drivers take extra disk and RAM space and I hope you do not need them.
Happy testing, of course at your own risk. Thanks!
Eric
PS: Johnson tells that the X31 notebook USB floppy is reported as generic ATAPI device by int 13.8 BIOS function, I guess USB CD-ROM would be the same? Bad luck for FORMAT. (int 13.8 returns BL=10 hex)
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