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WINCHESTER SUPPLEMENT
The SHIP Utility
The SHIP Utility is provided so that you may place the heads
of your Winchester system over a non-vital area of the disks.
Then if the system is accidentally jarred during movement,
damage will be limited to an area that is not used by your
Computer. The floating head design of Winchester drives
makes them very sensitive to physical shocks, which can dam-
age the surface of the disks. Therefore, you should use this
utility whenever you move your Winchester disk system, even
from one table to another.
To operate the SHIP utility, boot your Winchester Utilities disk
and type:
SHIP
and press the g~ g ] k e y . You will see a display similar
to the one illustrated in Figure 10.
SHIP version 1. 00
Copyright(C) 1983, Zenith Data Systems
The SHIP utilit y helps you to:
• Position the read/write heads of the Winchester disk
at a safe location for subsequent transportation
of the Winchester disk unit.
SHIP will prompt you to specify a cylinder address
to identify where the read/write heads should
be moved.
Enter shipping cylinder address in hex:
Figure 10
The Display for SHIP