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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Clicking drive (and thanks)
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Date: 9 Jul 90 04:18:57 GMT
References: <1990Jul8.145133.16205@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <1990Jul8.145133.16205@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> chaiklin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Seth Chaiklin) writes:
>When I originally called my local Amiga shop about the color and tint
>knob question, I was told that I should bring in the machine.
     Not very attentive people. Let's be charitable and say that they
misunderstood your question.
>Now I asked this same fellow on the phone about the fact that
>the external disk drive sometimes clicks as though it was trying
>to read a disk when it is empty.  He said that this happens sometimes
>even with internal drives, and did not seem concerned about it.
     AmigaDOS "clicks" the floppies when it checks to see if one has been
inserted. There is a small PD (or at least freely distributable - not sure
which) programme called "NoClick" (up to version 3.6?) which stops this
from happening.
     However, it _is_ normal, if a bit annoying. I just run NoClick to get
rid of the problem. Or, you can insert a floppy. Either one works fine.
     I don't know of NoClick works under V2.0 of the OS. I rather suspect
not, but has anybody tried it?
                                                     - R'ykandar.
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