Floppy Drive work like on PC possible?

[sim085]

Hi,

I was wondering, is it possible to set the Amiga floppy drive to work similar to that of a PC floppy drive by changing some settings from workbench? or maybe something available from Aminet?

What I mean by this is the following; rather then having the floppy drive always check if a disk is in the drive and display an icon when a disk is inserted, similar to Windows, an icon for the floppy drive would always be available and workbench would only check if a disk is in the drive when double click on this icon.

Regards,
Sim085

[sim085]

I was thinking of dismounting DF0 on workbench start-up and then create a project icon that would run a script to re-mount it on click. The only problems I can see so far is how to stop workbench from displaying an icon for the disk-drive once mounted, and how to open window with disk content from script.

I think I will still dismount DF0 on workbench start-up and mount it back only when needed since I do not like the click sound very much and with a 'noclick' program it still does a regular small click.

[sim085]

Which "no click" program are you using?  I have been using one for many many years now on multiple machines with multiple drives and I never hear a drive click after the program activates.

The one I have I downloaded it from Aminet (first one I found). With it the 'click' the drive makes was reduced, but I can still hear a 'small' click every few seconds.

Do you have a link to the NoClick program you use?

[sim085]

Do you have A500 or A500+ ?
Noclick only reduces click on A500+,"regular" A500 is OK.

I have an A500+.
 

AMINET: anticlick,clicknot,killclick or tdx
Please provide some feedback.

I don't have my workbench installation on me but as much as I remember the one I use is named NoClick. This one does reduce the click sound but not at all. I always thought that the small click was because the drive still needed to check if a disk was present or not.

So with those the drive produce absolutely no sound when no disk is present?

[sim085]

So does that mean that it is impossible to eliminate the click sound completly from the A500+ floppy drive (unless dismounting the drive that is) ?

[sim085]

Ok, I am starting to get little worried ... however the current sound I hear is very small (compared to the usual click noise I have without the NoClick).

Also, in the case mentioned above, would all NoClick programs have the same effect? i.e. - possibly damage the floppy drive?

[sim085]

Why would you even want to do this?? If you are bothered by the sound then why not just insert a floppy disk into the drive?

Because I would like to find a more professional option then just put a floppy disk there Dismount the drive and mount it only when I needed sound more professional to me - however I do not want to be doing any damage.

[sim085]

Thanks I'll try that one out.