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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: a3000 on December 09, 2006, 11:58:09 AM

Title: Disabling floppies.
Post by: a3000 on December 09, 2006, 11:58:09 AM

Hi can anyone advise how to disble orremove the need for the operating system to look for a floppy drive when first booting up.With floppies getting older & starting to play up & not really needed except to respond at bootup,How can this be done? This is on a 1200.

Title: Re: Disabling floppies.
Post by: motorollin on December 09, 2006, 01:02:24 PM

You could unplug it if your objection is to having the hardware there if you are not using it. However, you might then get a "DF0:????" icon on your Workbench. You can disable this in OS3.9 (and 3.5?).

Alternatively, I have just found this (http://aminet.net/package/hard/hack/HappyHardDrive) on Aminet, which says you can disable the floppy drive. Since it's in hard/hack I assume it is a hardware hack to physically disable DF0. I haven't looked in the archive or tried this, so I'm not making any promises it will do what you want :-)

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moto

Title: Re: Disabling floppies.
Post by: a3000 on December 09, 2006, 02:06:13 PM

Thanks Ive downloaded this.