Floppy drive constantly clicking

[gingerbeardman]

Hi,

I don't use the floppy drive on my A600. I have tried but it seems faulty. However, it clicks once every few seconds if I don't have a disk in it. If I put a disc in it grinds away crazily and then settles down. I just put a disk in to reduce the noise.

Is this normal?

Would this stop if I buy a new drive?

matt

[Hewitson]

This is completely normal. A program called Anticlick does however disable it without any apparent side effects, so I'm not sure why it's done in the first place.

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/anticlick

[Paul_s]

Amiga's have been doing this since the dawn of time! It is the Amiga's heartbeat.

[gingerbeardman]

Good to know I am not going crazy (or my Amiga)

I'll install anticlick. Cheers

[Jope]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

I'm not sure why it's done in the first place

It's done because the drive doesn't update the diskchange pin's state unless you step it.

And the reason why anticlick isn't enabled by default is as follows:

Normally the drive is stepped in, then out (then in again, then out again etc). When anticlick is on, the drive is stepped outwards only. The oldest drives found in A1000s do not like being stepped against the track 0 stopper and start making a bad noise (eventually probably going out of alignment) when you enable anticlick.

As always, if your drive doesn't become silent when you enable anticlick, then don't enable it for that drive.

[illy5603]

for some reason I can't get any of these anticlick things working on my Amiga Technologies A1200. I eventually just formatted a blank disk and leave it in the drive since I boot off of CF card.

[gingerbeardman]

None of the anticlick software worked for me, either

[rkauer]

Amiga Technologies drives are not fully Amiga drives, as they lack one signal (ready) and so they don't work correctly with most programs, games and demos.

[FOL]

Originally Posted by rkauer

Amiga Technologies drives are not fully Amiga drives, as they lack one signal (ready) and so they don't work correctly with most programs, games and demos.

Not all, some work fine.
As I also found out, some of the boards are at fault. Some of the circuit is missing.

Originally Posted by gingerbeardman

None of the anticlick software worked for me, either

Odd, "AntiClick" always seemed to work. After launching, it clicks about 2 more times then stops.

[8bitbubsy]

Originally Posted by Jope

As always, if your drive doesn't become silent when you enable anticlick, then don't enable it for that drive.

On my Escom new-old-stock A1200, the Panasonic floppy drive clicks silently with anticlick enabled, should I disable it then? Can it hurt the drive?
It clicks louder without it, but it sure does click even when anticlick is on... It's a drive from around 1995, modded for 100% Amiga compatibility by me. By that I mean feeding the ready signal and doing some rewiring on the drive itself, + removing the jumper wire on the underside of the Amiga motherboard. Still it clicks with anticlick on
The drive works 100% nice though, and it's fairly quiet when reading disks. Such a lovely drive!

[Dastardly]

I love the Amiga's "click...click". It wouldn't seem like an Amiga without it to me.

Each to his own

[phipscube]

I love that click too!

[Jope]

Originally Posted by 8bitbubsy

On my Escom new-old-stock A1200, the Panasonic floppy drive clicks silently with anticlick enabled, should I disable it then? Can it hurt the drive?
It clicks louder without it, but it sure does click even when anticlick is on...

Well let's revise my sentence to say that it the drive becomes louder AFTER enabling anticlick, then stop using anticlick.

[cosmicfrog]

each to there own I spose, back when it was one of the first patches I added noclick and change #? to * was always the second

[Jope]

I always run noclick too. Patched into my kickstart rom.

[rossb]

Hi Guys,

@Jope

Hi Jope, could you point me to any resources that explain how to patch my kickstart? I am running BlizKick on a 68030 and have loaded a few patch modules. Is there a anticlick module for blizkick? Or do I have to patch my kickstart manually with some other tools? I guess I can do this 'soft' without having to rewrite the actual eprom etc?

@cosmicfrog

Would really appreciate how to patch #? to *

Many Thanks in advance,

Ross.

[Jope]

rossb, I can only say search around on this forum. Check out the problems burning kickstart thread, search for romsplit and remus.. Download blizkick, remapollo, read the documentation of both, etc..

[rossb]

Hi Jope,

No worries, thanks for your reply, will start digging a little deeper

Ross.

[cosmicfrog]

for the #? to star searching for wildcard on aminet

http://aminet.net/search?query=wildcard+

DOSPrefs31 looks intresting

can`t remeber what I used back when but probably something like MCP

[rossb]

Thanks cosmicfrog!