On Tue 13 Nov 2018 at 08:36:06 -0600, LHS wrote: > http://news.ide64.org/2018/11/floppy-drive-tib-plc-dd-001-drive-2001.html The original DD-001 and both of my clones, with several floppy drives, make a strange sound -knocking when they are idle. It's a feature of this device... Maybe this is the same clicking as in Amiga floppy drives? In Amiga floppy drives there is a "disk changed" detector which is latched, and stepping the head resets the latch. Originally AmigaOS would step between two tracks every second or so; later versions simply stepped outwards and relied on the head not going further than track 0 (without making further noise). -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- "What good is a Ring of Power \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- if you're unable...to Speak." - Agent Elrond
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