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From: dailey@kira.uucp (Chris Dailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Noclick on the A3000
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Date: 1 Aug 90 05:14:29 GMT
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In article <1990Jul31.155439.21621@IRO.UMontreal.CA> desmarai@sylvere.UUCP (Stephane Desmarais) writes:
>In article <1990Jul27.050454.11169@cbnewsm.att.com> nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock) writes:
>>In article <1990Jul26.144452.8771@cbnewsl.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes:
>>>>Could someone post the way to turn off clicking for the internal drive on the
>>>>A3000?  Thanks.
>>>	Yeah, stick a floppy into the drive!!! 8^)
>>Yeah, but when you reboot the machine will it try to boot off the floppy?
>Just put a non-bootable floppy in (or even an unformatted floppy!)k
>As for the comment about not requiring memory, I "think" it is false, it
>does require some memory.  Just look at the free memory count at the top
>of the screen when you insert a disk. I'm not sure, but I think it goes down
>a tiny winny bit.  Nothing to be concerned of though.  As for the initial
>question, wasn't there supposed to be a preference setting for that in
>AmigaOS 2.0 ?

Couldn't you just reset the BootPri for the hard drive to a higher
value?  Then it would work no matter what on a WARM reboot, right?
Any gurus out there care to verify that?

>Stephane M. Desmarais       desmarais@iro.umontreal.ca  (le Domaine Canadien)
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