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#FloppyDrive Click

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#136105From: Kenneth P. OlsonMar 16, 1994 10:34 PM

I have NickPrefs on my A1200 and haven't noticed any problem. (Although I can't seem to get MagicWB1.2 to install.) I have it to use NoClick. It has a bunch of settings I don't intend to use, however. Is there some other no-click program for WB3.0x I should be using? I haven't seen a reference to drive clicking in the manuals (as in "read the docs"). Thanks, Ken

#136107From: Steve AhlstromMar 16, 1994 10:56 PM

You've got 3.0, you don't need NickPrefs unless you really like wasting the memory it requires. It is redundant, inefficient, and memory wasteful. Offhand I don't know of any specific "no-click" programs for 3.x, but I've never looked for one — I just keep a disk in the drive.

#136182From: Tony WilliamsMar 17, 1994 3:59 PM

Kenneth, download the KCommodity program by Kai Iske. Its a commodity that runs in the backgroud that includes the facility to stop drive clicking as well as a hundred and one other useful things. Best wishes, Tony Williams Driving my deck on AutoPilot

#136227From: Kenneth P. OlsonMar 17, 1994 10:17 PM

Thanks. It will be fun to try a couple new things out. Ken

#136312From: Trent HawkinsMar 18, 1994 8:25 PM

LOL!!! The cheap solution to drive clicking<g>.. Trent "If in doubt, empty the magazine"

#136319From: Steve AhlstromMar 18, 1994 9:35 PM

Trent, It's the only thing I figured a floppy was good for — to silence the clicking … I don't use them for anything else (well, coasters on occassion).

#136450From: Trent HawkinsMar 20, 1994 12:57 AM

=>I don't use them for anything else (well, coasters on occassion) LOL!! You too? Trent "If in doubt, empty the magazine"

#136696From: Kenneth P. OlsonMar 22, 1994 6:23 PM

OK OK, so I don't use them (floppies) for anything either. And I do have a bunch. It's almost a relief when one is corrupted so I can throw it away guiltlessly. I'll put them back in the drives and delete NickPrefs. I don't use it for anything else either. Can the originator of a thread end it somehow? Maybe it would have been done if I wouldn't have sent this further pleasant diversion. Thanks, Ken

#136117From: Karl F. KugelMar 16, 1994 11:39 PM

Is there any reason that NCLIC2.LZH in lib 9 here wouldn't work? -Karl Speaking from the Rubble.

#136226From: Kenneth P. OlsonMar 17, 1994 10:17 PM

Don't know, but I'll download it and try it. The one in NickPrefs works fine. I just wondered if I was missing out on something I didn't set properly somewhere, e.g. MultiView. It took an article in AW for me to figure out anything about MultiView, referred to only once that I can find in the A1200 manual. Now I use it all the time. Thanks. I will check! Ken