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From: drd@wucs1.wustl.edu (Dave Donat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Talking Floppy Drives
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.064212.13237@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 06:42:12 GMT
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I am getting really tired of listening to both of my floppies click every five
seconds, looking for disks that aren't there, and usually won't be any time
soon.  Is there anyway to shut them up?  Is it bad for the mechanism to sit
there and keep looking (should I have floppies in there all the time, even when
they are not being used)?  I have never heard of another kind of drive that
does this, don't most of them have optical sensors or something to detect when
a disk is inserted?

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