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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: setcpu & noclick
Message-ID: <7282@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 89 16:57:00 GMT
References: <7crY02GO3d4p01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <7crY02GO3d4p01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) says:

> A while ago, someone mentioned that the new (1.5) version of setcpu
> would stop df0: from clicking.

> Well, it doesn't on my "stock" 2500 (chinon drive, I think).

You need four things for the no-click patch to work:

	1.  An A2500 or '030 based Amiga
	2.  Kickstart 1.3, preferably in ROM (it will work from disk, but
	    it'll hurt your startup times).
	3.  "SetCPU FASTROM" in your startup-sequence, or another similar
	    place, to install the patched ROM code.  Make sure it's
	    SetCPU V1.5; previous versions didn't do this.
	4.  The correct kind of drive.  They tell me that some drives don't
	    work with this patch.  I didn't invent the patch, I just put it
	    in the general SetCPU patch facility because I found it worked
	    just dandy on my systems.

You can tell if you've passed steps 1..3 correctly by nothing the title of
your Workbench screen.  If it says "FastBench release 1.3 ..." you've got
all the software installed correctly; the rest is up to your drive.

> Has anyone gotten this to work?

This is only the second report I've seen of it not working correctly.

> "What is another word  |  Dave Lowrey    | [The opinions expressed MAY be
>  for 'Thesaurus'?"     |  Amdahl Corp.   | those of the author and are not
>                        |  Houston, Texas | necessarily those of his
>    Steven Wright       |  amdahl!dwl10   | employer]   (`nuff said!)
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