best "no floppy click" program.
 

As title, tried a few, some stop it for a bit, some make it quieter, whats the best way to make the drive shut up?


thanks.

You can use some progs from the Aminet:

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/Shutup-1.2

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/NoClick_1.6

I use this one:
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/NoClick

No more click :D

If the drive doesn't shut up, then it is not noclick compatible, and you should allow it to click.

Most of these 'no click' tools are basically the same as they just toggle a switch inside trackdisk.device. The no click feature was thus a part of the original design but since a few drives were not compatible, they decided to disable it as standard.

Then what if it doesn't kill the click but only reduces it a bit? In my 500+, there is a slight reduction in the click but it is still very audible, so I was wondering whether this was one of the drives that could be damaged over time if I kept it enabled. I think it is a Panasonic drive.

Yep, mainly the oldest ones in the A1000 and A2000A

The bit was added for the v36 release. V34 and older trackdisks require patching the trackdisk code, this is why most no click tools mention 2.x and above in their compatibility specs.

If it clicks, then it is doing an actual step against the track 0 stopper. This may or may not cause it to misalign over time. I have noticed the same and didn't care. The drives still work. Well behaved drives should not step out at all when track 0 is detected.

The ones where you definitely should not enable noclick actually start making rather loud noises when they start stepping too far out. It's quite easy to notice those.

Actually I don't think the head hits anything as it looks like there is a little room for it to move back a bit before it is stopped mechanically. Perhaps I should pull the lid off the drive and inspect it while it is clicking just to be sure.

yeah, i get that, turns it from a loud click, to a kinda soften one.

I use Wildclick: http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/wildclick

No more clicking and it gives me the use of '*' as a wildcard in the CLI :)

OK, my first thought reading this was:
"There's more than 1 program for that?" :-)

For some reason, I just always imagined there was 1 program, it worked and everyone used it.. ;-)

desiv

Apparently some people think that if they can make a version which is 10 bytes smaller than the existing tool, it warrants a new Aminet upload. :)

I use the no-click option built into MultiCX.
No need for separate programs doing all this stuff, MultiCX is great.

More better is to load noclick as a resident module or present in ROM. The advantage is if you start without S-S and/or start programs/games you have already a silent floppy drive. What is not the case if you start a noclick tool or use MCX/MCP.

How would one go about doing this?

If you have OS 3.9 and BB4, you'll have the updated trackdisk.device (40.2) with noclick enabled by default :) You can use it via LoadResident - LoadModule doesn't seem to like it.

Can you put that trackdisk.device in 3.1?

I made a NoClick which is 176 bytes and can be started from Workbench (including dragging the icon to WBStartup) if anyone wants a small one :D.

Remus can apply a BK_Mods NoClick patch to the trackdisk.device for people making their own custom kickstart.

Anyone know which "No Click" program works best under OS 1.3? I found NoClick1.3 (I think through a thread either here or Amiga.org... can't remember which) but when I try launching it from the Startup-Sequence it will GURU the system every time. If I boot then start a Shell and run it, no issues. It detaches fine also and I can close the shell.

Where in SS do you run it? It might require setpatch to be loaded first.
Or it might need WB to be loaded (try putting it in the end of SS, after loadwb)?

I've been putting an unformatted disk in mine, it's not very convenient.