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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: noKLICKstart
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Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 06:23:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 30 06:23:05 1987
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Keywords: Matsuhita, Mitsumi, Sony, NEC, Chinon, Panasonic, Fujutsu

In article <2412@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>
>I think the "official" vendors are NEC, Matsushita and Newtronics for the
>A1000...

Gack!  From that only the NEC will work with noKLICKstart.  The statistics
are grim.  Close to 60% of the people who contacted me had drives that
cannot be "un-clicked".  This a somewhat self-selected sample since
those whom it worked for did not need to ask me if there was any way
to get it to work.


>...Chinon for the A500 and A2000....  ....This track zero thing
>has never been a requirement, since the software normally takes care of the
>problem.

The Chinon drives work.  (including the older models, I was 100% wrong about
the A500 using the single +5 volt Chinon)
This is a sort of humble public request that the track zero thing be added to
the requirments list.  (Drive must obey internal track zero sensor)

I have not the foggiest idea about how to write a RAM resident noKLICKstart,
but I know that it *can* be done.  (Though Kickstart patches would be needed
to prevent $C00000 sizing munging, $D80000 "is it clock or bad RAM" confusion,
and allow WB to boot from any auto-mounted floppy).

 
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