MAJI@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ma Ji) (05/01/91)
I saw this NoClick program on one of fish disk which silence the disk drive. I talked to one of expert here. He said NoClick may damage some of drives if the drive is a good one. My question is has anyone use NoClick on their A3000? Has anyone experience any trouble from using the program? Any comment would appreciated. Maji
tjhayko@thunder.lakeheadu.ca (05/02/91)
I have had problem with NoClick and my second floppy. It would spontaneously st op writing while noclick was running. I deleted noclick from my startup-sequence, and I've had no problems since ********************************************************** * Tom Hayko * Call The Amiga Showroom * * tjhayko@thunder.lakeheadu.ca * 807-344-7460 80MB online* * tjhayko@LAKEHEAD.BITNET * NOTE: I'm not the sysop * **********************************************************
blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Blaine Gardner) (05/02/91)
MAJI@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ma Ji) writes: >I saw this NoClick program on one of fish disk which silence the disk drive. >I talked to one of expert here. He said NoClick may damage some of drives >if the drive is a good one. The no-clicker programs CAN damage some drives, but the ones at risk are cheap drives, not "good" ones. The drives click because the Amiga steps the heads from track 0 to track 1 to see if a disk has been inserted. The no-click programs make the heads step backwards from track 0 to (the non-existant) track -1. If it's a good drive with a track 0 sensor it refuses to step the head backwards past track 0. If the drive does not have a track 0 sensor, it bangs the head mechanism against a physical stop. This can cause head alignment problems. Fortunatly, it's easy to tell if your drive can be safely de-clicked. Just run the noclick program. If your drive stops clicking, everything is fine. If your drive continues to click, or makes a louder clicking sound, don't use the program with that drive. -- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com BIX: blaine_g DoD #46 My other motorcycle is a Quadracer. FJ1200 Safety at any cost! Support the new national 0 mph speed limit.
dvljrt@cs.umu.se (Joakim Rosqvist) (05/03/91)
>The no-clicker programs CAN damage some drives, but the ones at risk >are cheap drives, not "good" ones. The drives click because the Amiga >steps the heads from track 0 to track 1 to see if a disk has been >inserted. The no-click programs make the heads step backwards from track >0 to (the non-existant) track -1. If it's a good drive with a track 0 >sensor it refuses to step the head backwards past track 0. If the drive >does not have a track 0 sensor, it bangs the head mechanism against a >physical stop. This can cause head alignment problems. > Those drives could be silenced too. I have a modification on my kickstart wich will let me select for each drive wich method to use to make it shut up. Either step towards -1 or step normally and immediately step back again before the head moves. /$DR.HEX$