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YOu get 0 noise – and (at about 1/hz rate of "click" – you get the equivalent wear as if your Amiga stepped your floppy ALL the way out and ALL the way back every 3 or four minutes. Nice. The users here ask for lot's of things, Don – I don't they give a flying fig about whether there is a disk in the drive or not; I think they just want it to boot FAST! And it would – actually, I don't think there would be ANY difference in speed assuming you have a disk in a drive with the REAL autoboot; and if you don't, I'm really not certain what the Amiga does – does it attempt to read the disk? Or does it look at a hardware signal? If it looks at a hardware signal, then the "real" autoboot would be faster than MY proposed method by about 1 disk revolution. Not much to worry about – and probably impossible to measure with a stopwatch. I really thing these people, for the most part (90-99%) really don't give a damn whether there is a disk in the drive – they just don't want to wait a minute or more for it to be read, stepped. clicked, clacked, humped, dumped, pumped, greased, and fried. They want to turn on the machine, and (instantly, if not sooner) see the HD light come on and bootup complete. Anyone – correct me if I'm wrong – do you have some innate need to see the floppy slot EMPTY? And if so – Why?