On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, David Murn wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Jakob Eriksson wrote:
>
> > > BTW: Do you, Jakob, or somebady else know, whether one has to "park"
> > > the xt-disk before shutting down the computer?
> > > Is this neccessary, and if, how do I do this with > > linux and/or
> > > ELKS?
> > If no one ports this utility to ELKS, I guess XT drive users just
> > have to be very careful when moving the computer/disk.
>
> As long as we're not in protected mode, it's easy.
>
> MOV AH,19
> MOV DL,80
> INT 13
>
> This will park the heads on the first disk (81 for 2nd disk, etc). Very
> simple little asm program. You could pretty it up if you really wanted
> though.
Ah, great! :-)
Somebody smart could add this to the shutdown process in ELKS.
Jakob
