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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Talking Floppy Drives
Message-ID: <1991May3.190226.9928@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 19:02:26 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.064212.13237@cec1.wustl.edu> 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?
>

  There is a very simple way to do this. First, open the case of your
drive. Then, with a pair of pliers, remove the clicker and replace the
cover. However, I suggest the following method.

  Just get NoClick or Silence from an ftp site, and place that in your
startup-sequence. You can also patch the 1.3 disk-based roms permanently
with another program (forgot the name of it). 

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           David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN   
   "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it.
     But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that."
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