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From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Talking Floppy Drives
Message-ID: <1991May2.000624.806@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 2 May 91 00:06:24 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.064212.13237@cec1.wustl.edu>
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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drd@wucs1.wustl.edu (Dave Donat) writes:

>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?

Try a patch (on a fish disk) called 'NoClick', which shuts it up. You could
also try another hack called 'Tracksalve' which does other stuff (verify
any track write, patch a couple of trackdisk.device bugs, etc) as well as
shutting up _that_ click...

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| Luke Mewburn   (Zak)                |      This side for lease...        |
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