Floppy drive click

[save2600]

I generally run NoClick on all my hard drive based Amiga's, but it's nice to still hear the familiar "heartbeat" on my A1000 and A1010.  

[runequester]

Not sure of the exact utility but classicWB includes a noclick utility, which works excellently.

The clicky sound bugs my wife more than it does me, though she got used to it...either that or my IBM model M keyboard drowned it out

[SpeedGeek]

The trackdisk.device module from the BB3/BB4 updates eliminates the click also. You can install it with LoadResident or make a custom 3.9 ROM. Here is the link: http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/ROM_modules.htm

[Ancalimon]

The trackdisk.device module from the BB3/BB4 updates eliminates the click also. You can install it with LoadResident or make a custom 3.9 ROM. Here is the link: http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/ROM_modules.htm

It doesn't do anything here.

[SpeedGeek]

It doesn't do anything here.

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?

[bbond007]

There are small utilities that *produce* such a click. Specifically designed for AmigaONE-users, who don't have floppydrives...

johan

I attached a buzzer to to my minimig on pin 5 and 6 to get simulated floppy sound as the excellent firmware supports that.

It turned out to be too loud, so now I have covered the hole on the buzzer with electrical tape to reduce the noise

[Jeff]

We need a USB thumb drive that's sole purpose is to make the "floppy clicking noise" for those of us that miss it!

[Drummerboy]

Its interesting, how we can recognize who never had any Amiga before!

The Disk Drive Amiga "Click" its part of the hardware idiosyncrasy.

Yeah, its the only Computer tell to you "i am alive!".

For me any Amiga without  Disk Drive "click" sound, its like death Amiga.

In 1985, that came with Amiga. Later with CDROM Drives in PC Computers, start to use something similar to that in Amiga. If you insert a CD in any CDROM start to read a CD, you know like the Amiga`s Disk Drive.

Anyway, The Flicker in high resolution, the DD "Click" sound, " Guru Meditation", and other things are Classic Amiga Features, and came with all the Package Amiga is.

[Ancalimon]

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?

The one in my A4000T is the original Escom one  (which is connected to disk module via a dongle). I just bought a high density drive but haven't tried it yet.

The one in my A1200 is replaced.  The one I used with my old A1200 was also not the original one.

[psxphill]

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.

[dougal]

The click does not bother me but i did once try the noclick option of blizkick and it did not work on my a1200.

Its an escom a1200 and there is a small board connected to the floppy drive pins on the motherboard and then the floppy drive is connected to this board.

[Daedalus]

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...

[weirdami]

I'd stop, lean over the case and listen for the click. No click meant it was properly frozen with no hope of recovery.

I used to do something similar with Commodore 64. If some long loading game wasn't making any disk drive noise, I'd flip the lever up on the disk drive and if it clicked a bunch then you knew it was still loading. No clicks = reboot.