What's the best way to get rid of FDD Click?

[pkupcik]

What's the best way to get rid of FDD click on A1200?

I downloaded the "noclick20_usr.lha" from Aminet, but I can still hear a faint click, not as loud though as without the file.

The other thing I tried was to keep a blank floppy disk in the disk drive at all times. This works, but it seems not intuitive to keep a diskette in the drive forever just to get rid of the click?

Are there any other methods?

Thank you.

[save2600]

Those are the two methods I employ  

[AmigaHeretic]

I downloaded the "noclick20_usr.lha" from Aminet, but I can still hear a faint click, not as loud though as without the file.

Noclick is what I use to use.  Used both  Commodore and AI A1200s.  

I think I may have used this version though (same name but a different author)
http://aminet.net/util/boot/NoClick_1.6.lha

I fell like maybe I used this one on my A1000 or 2000
http://aminet.net/disk/misc/Shutup-1.2.lha

There are several others that I guess you could try:

http://aminet.net/disk/misc/clicknot373.lha

http://aminet.net/disk/misc/DisDF.lha

http://aminet.net/disk/misc/clicknot373.lha

[TheGoose]

1. Get rid of your DF0: floppy

2. Get one of these:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=832

3. Join the future and get one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Viking-Card-CompactFlash-Adapter-CF-ADAPT/dp/B00000J3SA


Lastly, you can always connect a real floppy drive to the external connector and install floppy stuff when needed.

[Colmiga]

Some models of floppy drives are not completely silent with a No Click patch installed. I'd suggest replacing the drive with a model known not to click with the patch applied if it is of bother to you. The Chinon FZ-357 HD drive I use on my A4000 is very quiet with the patch.

[marcfrick2112]

Well, the Aminet prog. that AmigaHeretic mentioned is what I use on my 4000's, and I think, my dad's A1200's....  I guess I'm lucky... all my Amigas' floppy drives go silent after running pretty much any 'no click' program...whether it's my 1200T with MCP, or my 4000's with NoClick.

@TheGoose: Your last suggestion is best, I think.... I'd LOVE to ditch floppies for good... but really, if my HDD dies, It's still a nightmare to get to a working (CD-enabled) OS 3.9 system even with a special boot floppy... Sure, it may work with a CF card, but please try it on your system first. Also, don't all CF cards have limited write cycles?? I dunno, but as long as floppies work for me, and I have disks... I'll keep using them as needed

[orange]

i used the noclick too, and have same problem on some drives.
but, IIRC, someone (readme.txt?) said that if the drive doesnt go completely silent after noclick, then do *not* use that utility. the problem is that heads will get misaligned after 'hitting the wall' for long time. you have been warned

[TheGoose]

@TheGoose: Your last suggestion is best, I think.... I'd LOVE to ditch floppies for good... but really, if my HDD dies, It's still a nightmare to get to a working (CD-enabled) OS 3.9 system even with a special boot floppy... Sure, it may work with a CF card, but please try it on your system first. Also, don't all CF cards have limited write cycles?? I dunno, but as long as floppies work for me, and I have disks... I'll keep using them as needed

Well, I do agree, re-doing an Amiga without a floppy is a pain if not next to impossible. But you know, I've wanted to try to put all the 3.1 disks on to a CF card that one could boot from? Wouldn't that be really cool, and have some assigns: setup to handle the "Disk Labels" ...

If I format a CF card with FAT 16 and set it to be bootable, will that work?

Hmmm.


Oh, and I have installed OS 3.9 from a CF/PCMCIA card setup, it will work...

[Thomas]

@TheGoose: Your last suggestion is best, I think....

Praising yourself ?

If I format a CF card with FAT 16 and set it to be bootable, will that work?

Why would you want to do this? You can as well use FFS which will perfectly work on your Amiga.

You can make the FAT drive bootable for Amiga if you run the Boot95 program which comes with FAT95.

Note that you cannot boot from PCMCIA, you need a CF-IDE adapter and mount it internally.

[the_leander]

Praising yourself ?

He didn't use the bb quotes is all.

[TheGoose]

No, that wont work. I was thinking about early start-up screen. Where you do have an option to boot from a HD formatted memory card? - in PCMCIA slot. That has been my hope to escape from floppy island.

More simply put, how can we boot from the PCMCIA port? What are the options? All of this of course is to eliminate the floppy for good; MUUHHHAHAHA.

[gertsy]

i used the noclick too, and have same problem on some drives.
but, IIRC, someone (readme.txt?) said that if the drive doesnt go completely silent after noclick, then do *not* use that utility. the problem is that heads will get misaligned after 'hitting the wall' for long time. you have been warned

So don't hit your floppy drives against the wall for even a short time, and they won't get misaligned.

I've been using noclick for 4 years on my A1200 (where you can still hear a faint clunk) and have never had a problem.

[kolla]

This is why I have HxC floppy drive emulators, three of them, two with SD slots

[orange]

So don't hit your floppy drives against the wall for even a short time, and they won't get misaligned.

I've been using noclick for 4 years on my A1200 (where you can still hear a faint clunk) and have never had a problem.

hey, try hitting your head against wall, after a while you probably wont hear even that 'faint clunk'

edit:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=543662&postcount=12

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/noclick.html

[paul1981]

I use MultiCX on a Workbench 2/3 setup:

http://aminet.net/package/util/cdity/mcx256

This is a very useful little commodity, which includes an anti-click.
Read the documentation though about the anti-click feature because depending on your particular floppy drive, you may have to adjust a setting (tooltype) to get the 'click' to totally disappear. I had to do this on mine (10 years ago).
What happened with mine is that the anti-click feature only half got rid of the click (as in your case)...so I read the docs and there it was, some adjustment in a tooltype - I got the click to go ENTIRELY. :rtfm: