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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
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Subject: Re: noKLICKstart
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Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 13:35:03 EDT
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In article <1544@gryphon.CTS.COM> jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) writes:
)In article <3688@zen.berkeley> bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
)>
>>[Description of two painfull ways to make a drive that won't stop stepping
>> at track zero stop]
)
>Er, there may well be a better way. If you're going to hack at the drive why 
>not tell the fool thing to not step the head unless the head is loaded?...

Yes, add a third way.  A friend an I looked into this a few days ago. 
This is slightly less desirable than the first ones because some systems will
try to recalibrate the heads, but if they are not stepping they will
stick in a loop until a disk is insterted.
Also, you still need to add a chip and cut a wire.  It's not easier.

I don't think there are any elegant solutions.  Those with clicky drives
are probably stuck for life.

 
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