POLL: How many peeps here......

[giZmo350]

...format a floppy disk, insert it into FD0, just to "SHUT THE THING UP!" .....   :lol:

[Piru]

0?

And it's DF0 not FD0 ;-)

[dillinger]

I beleive there's a hack out there called "noclick" which will silence the little begger. (search aminet.net)

I've never been tempted to try it myself though as I kinda like the sound. It's like the Amiga's heartbeat or something and is kinda soothing to the ears

[giZmo350]

dillinger says: I've never been tempted to try it myself though as I kinda like the sound. It's like the Amiga's heartbeat or something and is kinda soothing to the ears   :lol:    

It's funny, I'll be surfing on one computer, listening to the stereo, soldering something and playing a game on the Amiga,  all at the same time,  and I can still here that little cricket!  

Actually, I was thinking that "whatever little mechanical device is continually moving" might surely wear out....   :-o

[Piru]

Sigh.

Another try at pointing out the link:
http://www.aminet.net/search.php?query=noclick

[Doobrey]

Looks like Piru forgot to mention his very own Blizkick has a noclick module too, or was he just being modest?

[Cyberus]

Doobrey wrote:
Looks like Piru forgot to mention his very own Blizkick has a noclick module too, or was he just being modest?

Or it may be because you need a Blizzard or CS card to use it?

[Doobrey]

Cyberus wrote:

Or it may be because you need a Blizzard or CS card to use it?

True, or the CBM '040 card. If you had an Apollo board you could also use RemApollo with a rom image that you'd used applypatch on with the noclick module..

Anyway, I forgot to answer to poll.. naughty Doobrey.
Nope, I boot from a modified rom, straight into 3.9 with no reboots and only one drive click on powerup, then silence:-D  (where's the 'smug git' smiley when you want one?)

[Matt_H]

This works nicely. trackdisk.device has a flag to disable drive clicking, but it's just not set by default. There's nothing hacky at all about this noclick tool.

[melott]

I've been using 'NonClick' for 15 years or more.
Its ALWAYS the first thing I install after installing
Dos. I hate hearing the clicking of the floppies, I just
know that its shortening the life of the drives.
Way back when .... I'd heard that 'NoClick' was hard on
the drives and that 'NonClick' was better (wouldn't hurt
the drives). I've NEVER had a problem with it.

Oh .. NonClick is also on Aminet.

[voytech]

wow..
 Think about it. Without this: click.. 3 seconds of silence.. click.. 3 seconds of silence.. click.. and so on..  
It wouldn't be so bizarre, so cool, so very different from usin a boxed Ami (assuming you have one), than using a so called - personal computer, with a win, or linux desktop that never, ever clicks! And this is what makes classic Amis
so fun to use..

And I just love this clkick, click thing! and you can call me crazy, coz I'm one, but it's the sweetiest thing that I could hear 24/7!

Click! 3 seconds of silence, Click! 3 seconds of silence.. Click!

 

[Doppie1200]

voytech wrote:
and you can call me crazy,

Don't worry about it. I guess it is human. Some of us like beer, some like cars and most like girls ;-). Everyone likes something. There's sure to be more that like the clicking. They're just in denyal. You just went into the open. Thumbs up!

Anyway, I have a no click that comes with OS3.9 but my drive is still clicking. It is just softer.

[Zac67]

Matt's right - since Kick 2.0 there's a single bit flag that shuts the drive up (1.x needed a real hack). I use a tiny assembler proggie to set the flags on all units it finds on startup.

For the technically interested: In order to find out whether the disk has been changed you have to move the head. The original (clicking) method moves the heads back and forth between tracks 1 & 2. The 'noclick' method keeps moving the heads outward even when they're already on track 1. 'Modern' drives know that they've reached the limit and just ignore the move command (hence no sound), while still permitting the media change check.
The reason C= kept using the original method was mainly that very old A1k drives couldn't cope with the noclick method and they weren't sure that all future drives would.

@Doppie: if the drive's still clicking with the flag set, it's likely not to handle it too well - but it's probably been doing it for years...  :-)
I'm still on 3.1, so maybe 3.9 unclicks with another method (it's probably possible to step the heads up and down again so quickly that no movement actually takes place - but it might be hearable).

[PaSha]

I use YaK (Yet another Kommodity) to take care of this and a couple other things.

-Paul