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Offline psxphill

Re: Floppy drive click
« on: January 25, 2012, 09:03:24 AM »
Quote from: SpeedGeek;677340
It works great on my A3000 with original 880K floppy drive. But some floppy drives may not work with the no-click patches. Has your drive ever been replaced?

It's possible that even commodore supplied drives don't work with noclick. It was the reason that they never made it the default.
 
The click is caused because the drives only report a disk change when the head is stepped. Turning on "noclick" still steps the head, but it is moved to the outside of the disk first. If the drive is compatible then it will not move the head as it can't go any further, but because the computer tried then the disk change still works.
 
On drives that still make a noise, then it is trying to move the head even though it can't move further. It is feared that this could cause damage to the drive.