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- From: worc0223@news.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What NEW Amigas SHOULD have
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 23:21:44 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- Niklas Brunlid (kjell.brunlid@mailbox.swipnet.se) wrote:
- [...]
- : Exactly what function does the clicking have? It's not "checking if a disk has
- : been inserted", so it must be "I want a disk NOW!"... ?
-
- To ensure that all disk changes are noted, the "disk inserted" signal goes
- high (inactive) immediately a disk is removed, but will only be pulled low
- (active) when a disk is inserted AND a command is sent to the drive. The
- original standard way to do this (and the only totally safe way) is to send
- a skip in command followed by a skip out command - this movement makes the
- click sound.
-
- The various NOCLICK programs solve this by instead sending a skip out
- command, which is safe with _most_ drives because they are intelligent enough
- to ignore the command (the head will already be over track 0), but
- dangerous for some older drives which would eventualy bash their heads
- against the drive casing... The 2.0 and later ROMs have this feature
- built in, which can be activated by setting a bit in the unit structure of
- trackdisk.device for each drive. This is how multi-function commodities
- implement NOCLICK nowadays; in the bad old OS 1.3 days this required
- serious hacking...
-
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- Ben Hutchings, student. Finger me on worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk for various info.
- email: benjamin.hutchings@worc.ox.ac.uk WWW: http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~worc0223/
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