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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaOS 2.0 still clicks the floppies!
Message-ID: <5707@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 90 18:53:18 GMT
References: <11271@shlump.nac.dec.com> <29725@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: jimm@superman.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <29725@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) 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.  ALL my floppy drives are A1010 and they're nearly 5 years old now and
)work just fine with NoKlickStart.  These drives probably "see" over a thousand
)floppies a month, and NOT ONE PROBLEM since 1985; the systems would be unusable
)without NoKlickStart (even with my bad hearing :-)

What do you mean, "Wrong"?  Your dozen or so floppy drives are
representative of *all* manufacturing sources used by Commodore in the
last 5 years (even in A1010)?  By the small-sample statistics it follows
that ALL drives do not have such problems?

)The question I have is: WHAT provision IS there for NoClick (sic) to be used
)with AmigaOS 2.0?

I hear there is provision to more simply write an external utility/hack,
if your hardware supports it.  Trackdisk or somebody checks a public bit.

)I'll have to check my dealer's A3000 more carefully to see if I can hear any
)such noise.  If it exists, then my next system may just be an HP-9000 instead
)of an A3000. 

Very interesting logic from someone well-known for giving hardware advice.
"If on one machine I hear noise once, I'll be strongly inclined to change
vendors, operating systems, and software markets."

)Consider.  From the HP 1990 Catalog, the HP9000-340 is a
)68030/68882 running HPUX, comes with 19" monitor, etc etc [...]

)HP's prices (and the alleged new Sun machine's prices) are dangerously close
)to that of the A3000.  

You forgot software.  Price out the word processor, spreadsheet, compiler,
3D modeler/renderer, or whatever you use; or do you just use the hardware?

)I, for one, will NOT tolerate a system with clicking
)disk drives (as much as I like the Amiga).

Apparently not, but the logic, math, and balance of this posting is lame.
You sound like Marc Barrett.  Have a beer.

	jimm

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