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From: mohabir@arisia.Xerox.COM (Daniel A. Mohabir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Suggestion on drive clicking
Message-ID: <15290@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 91 18:26:58 GMT
Reply-To: mohabir@arisia.UUCP (Daniel A. Mohabir)
Organization: DS, XEROX
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I have a suggestion to solve the drive clicking problem for drives that 
support it. Non-volatile RAM. If i remember correctly, the RTC chip has some 
battery backed-up RAM. Maybe this is too late for 2.0 OS, but why not use this 
RAM as configuration RAM. Then, if a certain bit is set, this may indicate that
the drives are capable of "not clicking" and the appropriate code could be run.
This way, even if I boot off a floppy disk, my drives would not click and I do 
not have to run any "noclick" programs.
How about it?

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