Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Clicking Drives II Message-ID: <7357@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 23 Dec 90 16:21:49 GMT References: <1990Dec19.164559.19792@engin.umich.edu> <135@dogmelb.dog.oz.au> <1990Dec20.211301.28307@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 10 In article <1990Dec20.211301.28307@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@buster.cps.msu.edu (Chris Dailey) writes: > And why do Commodore drives require the click and why can't it be > eliminated, as other companies' machines do no have or need it? It's a design flaw in the standard 3.5" interface. Apple doesn't have the problem because they don't use standard drives, and IBMs don't have the problem because they don't detect disk changes at all. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .