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From: milamber@engin.umich.edu (Daryl Scott Cantrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Clicking Drives II
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.164559.19792@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 90 16:45:59 GMT
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  Hmm, I just got a program to make my A3000's drive stop clicking
to run (thanks to martin@iro.umontreal.can for the header info).  It
sets a noclick bit in the v36 trackdisk.device.  Which brings up the
question, why does trackdisk default to clicking?  There seems to be
no difference in functionality between clicking and not-clicking
state, and I can't imagine anyone actually WANTING ther drives to
make that annoying sound.. So why would Commodore go to all the
trouble of including this feature and yet force people to ftp a prog-
ram or "roll their own" in order to take advantage of it?
 
- Puzzled in Detroit.
(where the weak are killed and eaten.)
 

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