[comp.sys.amiga] Suggestion on drive clicking

mohabir@arisia.Xerox.COM (Daniel A. Mohabir) (01/03/91)

I have a suggestion to solve the drive clicking problem for drives that 
support it. Non-volatile RAM. If i remember correctly, the RTC chip has some 
battery backed-up RAM. Maybe this is too late for 2.0 OS, but why not use this 
RAM as configuration RAM. Then, if a certain bit is set, this may indicate that
the drives are capable of "not clicking" and the appropriate code could be run.
This way, even if I boot off a floppy disk, my drives would not click and I do 
not have to run any "noclick" programs.
How about it?

-- 
|******************************|*****************|********************|
|  Daniel A. Mohabir           |  Phone:         |  Amiga.            |
|  Email: mohabir@arisia.UUCP  |  (716)427-1886  |  Just do it!       |
***********************************************************************

etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson) (01/04/91)

In article <15290@arisia.Xerox.COM> mohabir@arisia.UUCP (Daniel A. Mohabir) writes:
>I have a suggestion to solve the drive clicking problem for drives that 
[Suggestion deleted, sorry]

How do I check (in any way, including manually) if my drives are safe to
use with a NoClick program?

Tommy Petersson
etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se