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Re: Floppy drive click
« on: January 24, 2012, 04:07:21 PM »
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Nope :)
I like it, too. It reassures me that everything is working right.


Yep, I remember back in the day - if things looked like they were frozen, I'd stop, lean over the case and listen for the click. No click meant it was properly frozen with no hope of recovery.
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Re: Floppy drive click
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2012, 10:20:37 AM »
A couple of people have mentioned the Escom drives now - it's quite possible that their PC drives did as psxphill said, and simply drive the heads against the endstop, meaning the click still happens. I've never had an Amiga drive that it *didn't* work with, but I have noticed that effect with modified PC floppies...
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