Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!labtam!eyrie!phoenix!proff From: proff@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Frederick Solidus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Clicking Drives II Message-ID: <1990Dec31.091243.470@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> Date: 31 Dec 90 09:12:43 GMT References: <1990Dec19.164559.19792@engin.umich.edu> <135@dogmelb.dog.oz.au> <1990Dec20.211301.28307@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <7357@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Phoenix ComSystem. Public UNIX Melbourne Australia. Lines: 27 In <7357@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >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. `-_-' >. Still, I don't see why the read/writte status just carn't be scanned. That would inform if there was a disk change. - Proff -- The Mad Proffessor/The Force |In what distant deeps or skies "The Tiger" by W. Blake, stanza two - |Burnt the fire of thine eyes? SMART:proff@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au |On what wings dare he aspire? DUMB:...uunet!phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au!proff |What the hand dare seize the fire? -- The Mad Proffessor/The Force |In what distant deeps or skies "The Tiger" by W. Blake, stanza two - |Burnt the fire of thine eyes? SMART:proff@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au |On what wings dare he aspire? DUMB:...uunet!phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au!proff |What the hand dare seize the fire?