That makes sense.
Drive clicking = stepper motor activity.
Every floppy drive has 2 motors; one actually perform disk rotation while another one moves heads back and forth.
Reduced clicking noise on Rev8a might indicate that motor still get enough current to move head and thus generate a click noise.
(AFAIK, that might be cylinder position -1 to 0 and back ti -1, dunno for sure).
don't know why you posted that,my drive has three motors. the extra motor is needed to eject the floppy disk. (motorized eject system)
maybe one day it may eject via software.
it's a jrop in replacement for my A1200 desktop floppy drive. it gets it's power (5v) via the ribbon cable on pin 3 of the A1200 motherboard 34 pin connector.
pin 3 is not on any A1200 motherboard i just added it in.
so the old floppy power connector is spare or removed on some of my other motherboards.
