From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Subject: Re: noKLICKstart
Date: 5 Sep 87 15:04:38 GMT
Organization: UCB Tubing Manufacturing Division

After my posting of the Kickstart disk patch to eliminate empty drive
click, several people wrote to me worried that it might not work
on their machines.  If they had only tried it first... :-).

After coming up with the idea I tested it. (Insert delay of about 1.5 years)
I then contacted Sony.  Their rep and spec. sheet says that the method will
work.  (Sony invented the 90mm drive, then got together with other manufactures
to make it a standard).  The NEC rep said the same thing... and that the
method chosen was quite common (and the method the Amiga uses quite weird).

Drives from any manufacturer should be just fine.  It has been tested on
drives from Sony, NEC, Mitsubisi and Panasonic (not all of those were Amiga
drives).  Have any other brands been used in the Amiga?  Probably.  Just
count the number of different style plastic eject button mouldings. :-)

Oh, and before you ask, this Kickstart patch is not going to bother any
software.  Software could not care less about the empty drive detection
method.

Read the file, patching.kickstart, for programming information. The file
NOKLICKSTART.README shows how to patch Kickstart to end disk click.

|\ /|  . Ack! (NAK, EOT, SOH)
{o O} .
( " )   bryce@hoser.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!hoser!bryce