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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaOS 2.0 still clicks the floppies!
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Date: 9 May 90 16:29:14 GMT
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gdunlap@csuchico.edu (Gregory L. Dunlap) 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.

Well, maybe.  But still it is hard to see why I have to waste the
memory space for something like NoClick, and have to bother with
locaing PD stuff, mucking with the system startup, figuring what to do
when I get 'enhancers', etc, etc.  Since (I think) even _commodore_
uses NoClick on their own amigas, why not just build it into the stock
driver and have it, say, be a preferences selection to pick which way
it steps the drives?

  /Bernie\