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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Talking Floppy Drives
Message-ID: <9105082154.48@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 91 06:54:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.064212.13237@cec1.wustl.edu> <1991May2.000624.806@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <1991May2.000624.806@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn) writes:
>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...


I guess MAST did something right.  I have the double floppy add-on, it does
not click.  I wonder what they did.


Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP