Floppy drive click

[alphagemini]

I have an Amiga 4000. The floppy drive is always clicking as if the system is
checking it or something. The drive works OK. Is there any way to stop this?
Putting a floppy into it stops it for a while but then the whole disk gets read or looked at without prompt.
Help!

[mfilos]

Don't worry it's a known issue.
Download AntiClick or NoClick from Aminet and run it in Startup-Sequence

[Ancalimon]

For me the only no-click utility that works is the one built in MCP. I don't know why but it was like this with my old Commodore A1200, with my new Escom A1200 and with my A4000T.

[LoadWB]

I use NoClick from AmiNet (another post of mine on this subject has the link.)  Put it in WBStartup, end of click.  I've used it on pretty much all of my Amigas going way back, though ISTR on my systems lacking a WBStartup drawer I put it in S:startup-sequence.

[foleyjo]

Nothing wrong with a bit of floppy clicking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUUunL6vMbY

[alphagemini]

Thanks, I will do it

[matthey]

Here is my version of NoClick...

http://www.heywheel.com/matthey/Amiga/NoClick.lha

It's 176 bytes, system friendly (no hacks) and runs from icon (WBStartup) or shell. Won't work with AmigaOS 1.x and maybe early versions of 2.x. Includes assembler source code.

[Johan]

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

johan

[VuData]

Am I the only person who likes the drive click?

[Matt_H]

Am I the only person who likes the drive click?

Nope
I like it, too. It reassures me that everything is working right.

[Brian]

Am I the only person who likes the drive click?

Nope, it's to great help when working with the Amiga hardware.

@mfilos
It's not an issue but a feature.

[Bamiga2002]

I find it annoying after all the good'ol clickety-click years. No more thank you! :hammer:

EDIT: now that I have a modded PC drive that utilises noclick, I still hear a faint click sound from it, but it's best of both worlds: I know that the miggy is alive but the sound is so low that it don't bother me.

[desiv]

It's not an issue but a feature.

+1!!!!

desiv

[Daedalus]

Nope
I like it, too. It reassures me that everything is working right.

Yep, I remember back in the day - if things looked like they were frozen, I'd stop, lean over the case and listen for the click. No click meant it was properly frozen with no hope of recovery.

[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.