From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 23 14:21:22 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 466EE7F6 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Received: from bs1.fjl.org.uk (bs1.fjl.org.uk [84.45.41.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0F70229B for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:21:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.35] (host86-163-34-162.range86-163.btcentralplus.com [86.163.34.162]) (authenticated bits=0) by bs1.fjl.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9NELC5n074915 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:21:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Message-ID: <5267DB5B.3040106@fjl.co.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:21:15 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: click-click in floppy disk drive References: <20131021135605.DSZ95987@ms5.mc.surewest.net> <20131022230000.9bfa7add.freebsd@edvax.de> <20131023134628.d91267ab.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20131023134628.d91267ab.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:21:22 -0000 On 23/10/2013 12:46, Polytropon wrote: > At least, the classic Amiga floppy drive wasn't that annoying > when determining if there's a floppy disk in the drive - much > more advanced than what the PC usually did ("Press ENTER for > next disk!").;-) The rot set in with the move from 8" to 5" in my view. Okay, before the SA400 they weren't exactly standard but the cut-down interface missed off the commonly fun fun lines like the one to tell you if the door was open and the "lock door", to prevent the luser from whipping a diskette out when you didn't want them to. Oh! What fun we had with that one :-)