Re: Clicking Drives II

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From: Frederick Solidus
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 1990 09:12

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In <7357@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <1990Dec20.211301.28307@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@buster.cps.msu.edu (Chris Dailey) writes:
>> And why do Commodore drives require the click and why can't it be
>> eliminated, as other companies' machines do no have or need it?

>It's a design flaw in the standard 3.5" interface. Apple doesn't have the
>problem because they don't use standard drives, and IBMs don't have
>the problem because they don't detect disk changes at all.
>-- 
>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
><peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

Still, I don't see why the read/writte status just carn't be scanned. That
would inform if there was a disk change.

- Proff
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The Mad Proffessor/The Force                |In what distant deeps or skies
"The Tiger" by W. Blake, stanza two  -      |Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
SMART:proff@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au            |On what wings dare he aspire?
DUMB:...uunet!phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au!proff    |What the hand dare seize the fire?

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From: proff@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Frederick Solidus)
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Subject: Re: Clicking Drives II
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