Drive anti click utilities

[woody.cool]

I use ToggleClick which is part of SuperDuper disk copier.

[Harrison]

Thank you both for the recommendations. I hadn't heard of either of those before.

The Clicknot one looks good. Only 348 bytes and it can be run on WB2 and 3 from the CLI, WB and also the WBStartup draw, which is good. And it is only 348 bytes in size. I will give that a try first.

[Harrison]

Could they be something wrong with my A600's internal floppy drive?

I've now tried a few different noclick programs from Aminet and the drive continues to click with them all.

I remember I stopped the clicking on the drive before with a similar program. It's probably still on my old external archos HD. I will have to dig that out and take a look.

[Bloodwych]

If your drive is working fine apart from not playing ball with a noclick utility, I'd say it's fine - just not compatible with the software.

As a final solution. there is a utility on Aminet that allows you to totally disable the internal drive when not in use, freeing up a small amount of resources in the process.

When you need the drive again, you just enable it. I can't remember it's name at the moment, but I saw it yesterday while browsing around Aminet for noclick utilities so it can't be hard to find.

[Harrison]

After trying out all of the no click utilties I've reached the conclusion that the drive is clicking less when any of the no click utilities are active. If I disable then the drive is noticeably louder. However it does still click. Very odd as it used to stop clicking completely with such a utility years ago with the original setup.

Of course I could use the other method of stopping it from clicking. Just keep a blank disk in the drive!

[Huggies]

I've put clicknot on my 1200 and it works a treat. My partner will be rather happy now as she detest the drive clicking.