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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaOS 2.0 still clicks the floppies!
Message-ID: <10219@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 8 May 90 15:09:30 GMT
References: <11271@shlump.nac.dec.com> <29725@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <29725@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>gdunlap@csuchico.edu (Gregory L. Dunlap) in <1990May07.193940.857@csuchico.edu>
>writes:

>	I've heard that programs (such as NoClick) which stop the clicking of
>	the drives (by stepping the heads in the negative direction from track
>	0 instead of stepping them between tracks 0 and 1) may damage drives
>	with which this trick doesn't work (such as the A1010). This may be
>	why Commodore left the clicking in.

>Wrong.

Not all A1010 drives are the same model, or even the same manufacturer.
I've got a five year old A1000 on my desk, and NoKlick works fine with
the external drive, but makes all sorts of evil sounds with the internal
drive.

Change the original quote to "some A1010s", and I believe it is
substantially correct.

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University